What is Origami?
Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming.
Origami is a tool in the Mobile Prototyping & Interaction Design Tools category of a tech stack.
Origami is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Origami's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Origami?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Origami in their tech stacks, including Facebook, Scale, and Teknologi.id.
Developers
39 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Origami.
Pros of Origami
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Origami's Features
- Switch- Toggles between on and off and remembers its current state.
- Scroll- Lets you allow the user to scroll an image.
- Bouncy Animation- Animate a changing value with a bouncy spring.
- Classic Animation- Animate a changing number with a specified duration and easing curve.
- Transition- Takes a number in the range of 0 to 1 and converts it to a range starting with Start Value and ending in End Value.
- Color Transition- Fades between two colors.
Origami Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Origami?
Framer
Framer is a JavaScript framework that makes creating realistic prototypes a breeze – complete with filters, spring physics and full 3D effects. Framer Generator is a desktop app that imports the resources and folder hierarchy from Photoshop files (Sketch coming soon). Import your design and immediately start to add interaction and animation.
Principle
It makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces. Whether you're designing the flow of a multi-screen app, or new interactions and animations, it helps you create designs that look and feel amazing.
Lottie
Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!
ProtoPie
It is the easiest tool used to turn your UI/UX design ideas into highly interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, all the way to IoT. ProtoPie runs on macOS & Windows and the player app is on iOS and Android.
Material
Express your creativity with Material, an animation and graphics framework for Google's Material Design and Apple's Flat UI in Swift.
