I can understand what the article is trying to say. Because designing "seems" to be the thing we are doing everyday (regardless whether we are a designer or not), it makes designing seems so easy that people often mistreat designers as a merely technical worker (who can operate Photoshop). Unlike doctors or architect.

Why :')

Great subtle animations and layouting. Do you welcome any critics?

Beautiful!

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Couldn't agree more :D

Awww man I love this thread. Such a retrospective. And makes me realize that we need to do hard work to make the gap between our work and our taste smaller (inspired by Ira Glass quote). Anyway here's mine:

• My first vector art in 2007 when I was 15 http://orig14.deviantart.net/6fa0/f/2007/053/2/1/ichigo_by_danuve.jpg
• my first blog in 2003 http://www.geocities.ws/matsuyama_02/
• and my first paid work in 2009. My teacher was my client :)) http://web.archive.org/web/20091104031854/http://evelinsgown.com/

I think I have my graphic design work but it's stored somewhere in a hard disk that I also have forgotten where I put it.

Red!

You should put more context in your article https://medium.com/@thomasdegry/how-sketch-took-over-200gb-of-our-macbooks-cb7dd10c8163#.5v35y76wg

If you want a quick and capable, I will eliminate Framer, Origami or Flow because they require coding and new kind of logic (patches). I just happen to learn to use ProtoPie this week. It's still on beta phase so you can get it for free.

Before using ProtoPie, I have tried Flinto and Principle.

In flinto, it's hard to create animated transitions using its behavior designer or transition designer, but easy to create page transitions. In Principle, it's hard to make a prototype complete with all screens because it doesn't have simple core feature like page transition, but it's easy to make single interactions using Drive and Timeline. Therefore you have to use both in order to achieve page transition and animation.

In ProtoPie, I can achieve both. IMO it has the most complete events or interactions needed to build a decent prototype, compared to Flinto and Principle. It has Timeline and Chain (chain is similar to Principle's Drive). Also other killer features like Send and Receive (you can send signal to other device and receive it from the other device). One thing that I really like is ProtoPie HAS an Android app to preview your prototype (most of prototyping tools don't have Android support). The cons of ProtoPie for now is you can only preview your prototype using devices (there is no on-screen preview) and its lack of documentation. But I'm sure you can learn it fast because it uses easy to understand language for its events. Little tweaks can make it look like a real app, can be useful for pitching too :D.

At first I resisted to learn it because it lacks small details such as you can only move layer one by one, or you have to manually change number instead of pressing the up or down key just to increase or decrease the value. But I hope they will improve it in the future releases of ProtoPie. I'm really looking forward to its official release and would be very happy to purchase it!

Hope this helps :)