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.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
