![]() ![]() Many of our students are very interested in the app development industry. Whenever I find that a company I know and like is using Flinto, that feels like a good achievement.ĩ. It’s hard to point to just one achievement, it’s been a series of small things. What has been your biggest achievement since joining Flinto? Flinto will slowly evolve, it will be fun to see!Ĩ. We’re just working on Flinto, but we have lots of cool ideas about where we’d like to take it. Is there any other development tool your team is working on at the moment? It’s really nice to hear, the community has been very supportive of our two-person bootstrapped company.ħ. Every day we receive a few messages from people explaining what a benefit Flinto has been to their workflow. The response to Flinto has been amazing, I didn’t realize there were so many mobile app designers who would fall in love with it. How has the rest of the community responded to your project? We have recently begun to develop mobile applications at our agency and Flinto has become incredibly useful to us. I hope that providing this kind of tool encourages designers to test their designs more and to consider interactions more.Ħ. I hope that Flinto continues to be useful, and that it is regarded as a high-quality tool. I’m motivated almost entirely by creating something that I think is cool and works really well. Is there a particular objective you hope to achieve through Flinto? One year after launch, he and I are continuing to work full-time on Flinto.ĥ. It worked well so I continued to refine it over the years and eventually partnered up with Kaz who is the original creator of Echofon. The students needed a way to prototype their designs at the end of the class so I built a very rough version of my idea. I had the idea while working on Echofon, but didn’t get a chance to actually build it until I was teaching an iOS UI design class at CCA . And we’ve recreated the iOS transitions very accurately so it really does feel like a real app. It’s great to see your app prototype on your phone with it’s own icon, just like a real app. You can send an install link to your phone, or anyone else’s phone, which can be used to install the prototype on-device. We focused on making the editor really really fast, you can link up your prototype in just a few minutes. In the editor, designers add screens they’ve designed that represent their app, and link them together. Flinto is such a convenient tool for developers, do you mind giving a brief description of what it consists of?įlinto has two main parts, an editor and a viewer. There were not many tools that supported that.ģ. I was trying to design the interactions first, rather than the visuals. While working as the design of Echofon, an iPhone Twitter app, I found myself wishing I had a way to test out my ideas on my iPhone. I started my career mainly doing front-end web development for startups and eventually moved into design consulting. I studied computer science in college but ended up dropping out. I’m Nathan, I live in San Francisco and grew up in Santa Cruz, a couple hours south of here. Hello Nathan and thank you for the interview! Would you like to introduce yourself? Now let’s hear what Nathan had to say about his app and the evolving world around us: The interview: 1. All it takes is some PNGs, a few links and some awesome custom transitions and you re done! Using Flinto you can tests the design and usability of your app without even developing a single line of code. This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Nathan Manousos, the designer responsible for the awesome .į has come up with one of the most innovative solutions for app developers. ![]()
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