“Today we’re thrilled to be releasing Origami, a toolkit for Quartz Composer that allows designers to build and prototype mobile interactions faster than ever,” said Facebooker James Pearce today on the company blog. Quartz Composer is a free Mac OS X app from Apple. It’s around 10 years old, and it’s mostly intended for motion graphics, not mobile app design. Origami changes all that, allowing you to create interaction flows and animations for mobile user interfaces.
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Published December 20, 2013
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