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by addcn
2893 days ago
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Congrats on all the new products! Somehow I missed a year of your releases -- my loss. I remember how transformative auto-layout was for my team when it came out. For the first time designers could, for themselves, grapple with the tradeoffs of different layout / resizing rules pre handoff. I think the unrecognized impact of tools like yours is that they give designers a playground to think about some problems in a more developer-like way. Regardless of how much of the code makes it into production I think that's a win for designers and their teams. Looks like timeline has the potential to do the same thing for interactions and animations. You guys helped invent this space not too long ago and I'm curious where you all see things going long term? |
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Today the tools we provide force designers to think in a more structured way. A great example of this is Stacks, which forces a layout to be consistent. Unstructured design, or in other words, floating layers corresponds to CSS's absolute position. Stacks, however, corresponds to CSS's Flexbox.
By enforcing designs to adhere to concepts which are borrowed from the development world, we can actually convert design to code.
In the long-term, we see that not only layout will be structured and translated, but all aspects of a user interface.