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PROTO.IO (From $24 per month)

Proto.io is an incredible contender

for creating lifelike prototypes from

rough ideas right through to fully fledged

designs. The tool also provides many

possibilities for your projects, including

creating detailed animations and custom

vector animations.

It’s certainly one of the front runners

when you’re assessing tools to help create

your prototypes. With Proto.io, starting

a project is as simple as you want it to

be. With only a rough idea sketched out,

you can get cracking right away and start

using predefined assets to evolve your

concept quickly.

Once you’re happy with your ideas,

these can then be turned into more

polished and presentable wireframes for

further validation and reflection. The

next significant step after that enables

you to tweak the design of your

prototypes so they are as true to the end

result as possible.

Proto.io is a web-based tool and

comes with a bucketload of add-ons

and features, which include

the importing of Sketch

and Photoshop files, VR

prototyping, UI Libraries

and even screen recording

for user testing. This

can really help if you are

transitioning to and from

other applications.

Ultimately, you will need to take

some time to get to grips with this

tool. There’s a lot that can be done with

it and there are a great number of

options and menu items to play

with. Once you’ve learned

your way around it though,

it will be a hard one to

put away. The prospect

of creating detailed

animations really does

make this an excellent tool

to use and the perfect way to

execute your ideas in as realistic a

manner as possible.

TIP

Use interactions and

callbacks within objects

to customise nice bespoke

interactive elements. You

can get some really nice

effects.

Great for design

Shareable prototypes

(private/public)

Mobile app available

Record user tests

Great for animation and

transitions

Works with Sketch and

Photoshop files

Add-ons available

Able to add supplementary

UI libraries

Supports virtual reality

prototyping

Not great for offline use

PRO AND CONS

Above Proto.io provides many possibilities for your

projects, including creating detailed animations

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