So here’s my first attempt at using FramerJS. I only looked into it out of frustration. Marvel and Invision wasn’t handling the animation well enough and Pixate got too weird and complicated really quickly, so since I had bought Framer with Sketch together many months ago, I might as well gave it a try and it was… AMAZING!

Pros

• Imports from Sketch pretty easily
• Once you understood how functions/animations are structured it’s really easy
• FAST
• The prototype changes as you TYPE (no need to save)
• Can share to mirror prototype to mobile really easily

Cons

• I had to learn CoffeeScript
• The sharing function is REALLY basic
  • No Password protection for prototype
  • All prototypes uploaded will be available for download (I’m embarrassed of my code!)
  • Can’t delete a prototype once it’s shared, you have to email support
  • Prototype is pretty slow in iFrame

 

My First Prototype

Here’s my first attempt with Framer with a fictional project, let me know what you think? Is there a better tool out there?