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Framer vs Impulse: What are the differences?

What is Framer? Turn static mockups into prototypes with animation & interaction. 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.

What is Impulse? Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web. Create animations that flow naturally from the user's movements. Rather than animating properties for a set amount of time, impulse takes a start position, end position, and velocity.

Framer and Impulse belong to "Mobile Prototyping & Interaction Design Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Framer are:

Generate assets out of Photoshop to set up new projects.
Animate any layer in 3D space with spring physics and bezier curves.
Hardware accelerated for high frame rates, based on CSS transforms.

On the other hand, Impulse provides the following key features:

Springing
Accelerating
Decelerating

Framer and Impulse are both open source tools. Framer with 5.45K GitHub stars and 506 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Impulse with 1.63K GitHub stars and 77 GitHub forks.

Advice on Framer and Impulse

Joey van Gessel

Design & Growth Engineer at Joey van Gessel Design · Feb 12, 2021 | 4 upvotes · 5.7K views

Needs advice

Framer

InVision

and

ProtoPie

Hey!

I want to prototype an app for a school project. I need to test the app from a distance, so it's multiple user tests from different locations when I'm only there online. What do you think is the best combination of tools available? I want to record the user sessions. It should be responsive on different viewports for phones, and it's should be interactive (e.g., testers can actually type in a text box).

Thanks in advance for your advice, looking forward to it. Please also tell me the "why" behind the choice. - Joey

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Christopher Izuchukwu Amadi

UI/UX Designer at Chris Amadi · Mar 31, 2021 | 4 upvotes · 3.8K views

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Framer

Hey Joey, I would advise you to use framer. It lets you create realistic prototypes and this allows you to capture usage especially errors from form inputs in a realistic manner as compared to static screens. With framer, you can easily connect to user testing apps such as lookback.io by the click of a button, run your tests and get the best feedback possible.

I hope this helps.

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What is 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.

What is Impulse?

Create animations that flow naturally from the user's movements. Rather than animating properties for a set amount of time, impulse takes a start position, end position, and velocity.

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What are some alternatives to Framer and Impulse?

Sketch

Easily create complex shapes with our state-of-the-art vector boolean operations and take advantage of our extensive layer styles.

Figma

Figma is the first interface design tool with real-time collaboration. It keeps everyone on the same page. Focus on the work instead of fighting your tools.

InVision

InVision lets you create stunningly realistic interactive wireframes and prototypes without compromising your creative vision.

Adobe XD

A vector-based tool developed and published by Adobe Inc for designing and prototyping user experience for web and mobile apps.

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.

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