Vancouver, July 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JABT Labs Inc., the Vancouver technology company, today announced the launch of the first fully integrated animation design-to-code tool for iOS, Flow. With this tool, it’s now possible to instantly and accurately translate designs into code for Swift / iOS and HTML5 / CSS. To-date the team behind Flow has secured $1.3M in funding. These funds will support development and assist in bringing the product to market.
“Flow offers designers and developers a capability that, up until now, hasn’t been successfully brought to market,” said Travis Kirton, Founder of Flow. “For years the industry has demanded an all-in-one tool to translate animation designs into production-ready code for multiple platforms including IOS.”
The creation of Flow was driven by Kirton’s insight into the fragmented nature of workflow between designers and developers. The gross inefficiency was draining time, resources and money. With the arrival of Flow, time once spent on costly revisions could be diverted and used instead to build better applications.
“Flow was designed to remove frustration and ambiguity that exists between conceptual development and practical implementation,” said Kirton. “By creating a communication platform between the two industries, Flow enables designers and developers to invest their time and resources in the areas of greatest need rather than countless revisions.”
With the click of a button, Flow imports user designs from Sketch and immediately moves them into production. High-quality code-export tools ensure the designer’s vision is preserved and accurately represented in the final product. In the case of the developer, less time is spent on revisions and more on the infrastructure and code quality of applications.
Flow Key Features:
- Sketch Integration: Flow taps straight into a designer’s Sketch file, facilitating in-app animation.
- Artboards are States: You design the beginning and end of the animation in Flow.
- Animation Tools: Flow automatically animates between two linked artboards, and allows users to edit the states directly from the timeline.
- Exporting code: Flow’s sophisticated code export system exports animations as high-quality, production-ready native code, including Swift/iOS code or HTML5/CSS.
- Customizable Code Export Templates: Flow’s template engine gives developers the ability to customize how the code will be exported.
About JABT Labs Inc.
A Vancouver-based design and development company, JABT Labs Inc., is dedicated to closing the production gap between design and development. Through its signature product, Flow, designs can be instantly animated and accurately translated into ready-to-use code for Swift / iOS and HTML5 / CSS. With the highest code quality of all design-to-code export tools on the market, Flow preserves the vision of designers, streamlines the workflow of developers, saving both from months of time previously spent on revision work.
JABT Labs launched Flow in the summer of 2018 following a $1.3M injection of capital from the Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Slant Design + Marketing. Learn more about Flow at https://createwithflow.com