7immer Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 The craft plugin for sketch is pretty awesome! https://labs.invisionapp.com/craft They have a cool prototyping plugin too! The Bearded Bird, Dams, Teo_ and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallreflection Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 For a start, I think having a scripting API for plugins for Affinity Designer would be a huge boost—but built-in functionality for inputing data like this would also be really impressive and would potentially draw a lot of Sketch fans. Heinrich and 7immer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7immer Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 An api would definitely be beneficial! I can imagine a data inputting plugin would be quite easy to create. I guess affinity might be worried about needing to maintain it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted September 22, 2016 Staff Share Posted September 22, 2016 We do have prototyping already working behind-the-scenes in the current Designer, but it is disabled while we work through and flesh it out. Hopefully 1.6 will enable this functionality :) Teo_, ronnyb, rnb and 14 others 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7immer Posted September 22, 2016 Author Share Posted September 22, 2016 Wow guys! You really are on the ball! Nice 1! :D I'll be looking forward to the consumer betas when they arrive! MattP and esaramago 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bauke Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 We do have prototyping already working behind-the-scenes in the current Designer, but it is disabled while we work through and flesh it out. Hopefully 1.6 will enable this functionality :) That's fantastic news! The Bearded Bird and jallsebrook 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorin.jurcut Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Pretty please, also include some interactions & animations to build the prototype & include the preview-er into the phone app you guys are working on ! It would be top stuff ! :D No more principal, no more flinto... one tool ! Stuff of dreams ! The Bearded Bird, G.M.1986 and jenda 3 Quote UI and UX designer extraordinaire, dad, avid Destiny player, and generally striving for decency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolo.limoncelli Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 We do have prototyping already working behind-the-scenes in the current Designer, but it is disabled while we work through and flesh it out. Hopefully 1.6 will enable this functionality :) Yep... I remember you left something visible in one of the earliest 1.5 Betas... :P Quote The white dog, making tools for artists, illustrators and doodlers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorin.jurcut Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Would be cool if you guys could include some of us UI/UX designers in those betas for some tips... :) The Bearded Bird, fernandolins86 and G.M.1986 3 Quote UI and UX designer extraordinaire, dad, avid Destiny player, and generally striving for decency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.M.1986 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 I think that if you guys includes a persona that works like Adobe Experience Design or InVision or FlintoYou'll be ahead of your competition. all-in-one design tool. Maybe later an animation persona like Krita or even better Spine hehehe maybe it is overkill or too much to ask but... we can dream ehehe Seriously guys that tool is great keep it up.Guillaume, Montreal sorin.jurcut and The Bearded Bird 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.M.1986 Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 Just a question I know that Affinity Designer is now at the 15.3 version, do you have an approx. on when the 1.6 version will come out? Thank You Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted November 21, 2016 Staff Share Posted November 21, 2016 Just a question I know that Affinity Designer is now at the 15.3 version, do you have an approx. on when the 1.6 version will come out? Thank You We only ever release the next version when it's ready - so we don't know when that will be, but I'd imagine it will be quicker than the 1.4->1.5 update cycle this time as we're trying to improve and flesh-out the features we already have and resolve long-standing issues and performance problems, whereas other updates have focused on adding new functionality which always has a volatile development time. shadowstorm, sorin.jurcut, Wiredframe and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.M.1986 Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 We only ever release the next version when it's ready - so we don't know when that will be, but I'd imagine it will be quicker than the 1.4->1.5 update cycle this time as we're trying to improve and flesh-out the features we already have and resolve long-standing issues and performance problems, whereas other updates have focused on adding new functionality which always has a volatile development time. Hi considering that 1.5.5 is out and that 1.6 is in the loop, actually I read that it will come out around Easter. Does that mean that the prototyping persona will come out aswell or just light UI and brush stabilizing? Thank You Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 this time as we're trying to improve and flesh-out the features we already have and resolve long-standing issues and performance problems Really great to hear this Matt! anon1 1 Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenda Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 I'm looking forward to using this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dams Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 I +1 this request. I have shown Affinity Designer to designers at my new job (nobody knew it BTW). They all loved it but the deal breaker is no invision plugin they use today with Sketch. It saves them so much time that they are not willing to switch even if they saw that Affinity was better in a lot of way than Sketch. The ball is in your court now. Your move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jallsebrook Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Like the above - I want to move to Affinity and get all the UX guys in my company on board (currently on Sketch with Craft) prototyping and more UI/UX design support would be great - plus UI stuff like scalable buttons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jallsebrook Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 One super cool feature that Craft offers is quick filling out of text - eg. if you are designing a UI for a table containing names, dates, descriptions etc, you can automatically fill with relevant random info, even import via API / JSON. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.M.1986 Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 We do have prototyping already working behind-the-scenes in the current Designer, but it is disabled while we work through and flesh it out. Hopefully 1.6 will enable this functionality :) Hi Matt, I know that you guys are working hard so don't worry my question is only because I am wondering, no stress. Considering that the release of the 1.6 version is delayed, can we know if that feature is still in the loop, a priority and will it come in that version? Thank You very much Keep up the good work. esaramago 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmapThom Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 I have just purchased Affinity Designer for Mac this morning. Great tool overall. It's still a bit a pain to upload .png files manually to Invision, but I'm betting that you will find a solution soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dams Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 On 9/22/2016 at 6:37 PM, Bauke said: That's fantastic news! One year later: disabled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasnosek Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Disabled? They cancelled this feature? Psyphant 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psyphant Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Hi Affinity-Team, can you post an update on this feature? Looking forward to see this in your app. esaramago and jenda 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomasnosek Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 I would appreciate it as well since the Adobe XD is under subscription. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdelaneau Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Don't get me wrong, including prototyping in Affinity Designer would be really nice (exit Flinto) but I’m more interested in the two options from the Craft plugin that are Data and Duplicate. Data allows you to quickly fill your mockup with actual content, Duplicate is the easiest way to create lists and grids that I ever encountered. With both combined you can create a complex element, fill it with content then duplicate it and get a perfect grid with different content filled in automatically. Even if I love Affinity Designer and I use symbols a lot, getting the same result takes time and feels like a huge step back. PS. I’m fine with having a separate app for prototyping as long as the files are correctly synced between them. Even with personas solving the UI part, adding more and more stuff might bloat the application. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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