We’ve introducing a new native element in Play: Button. — Designing with “real materials” is one way we believe product teams can create more streamlined workflows and better products—cutting out all the back and forth between what design has created and what engineering needs to translate to code. In this article we’re going to explore this concept using one of…

Design, prototype, and share mobile products. All from your iPad with real-time sync to Play iOS. — Play iPad is the second product launch of Play’s product suite, giving you more flexibility and speed when designing mobile products. Install Play for iOS & iPad on the App Store. Since our focus at Play is to create the best possible tools for teams designing mobile products, Play for…

How our team approached the design and development of Play’s zoom mode. — Our users asked and we delivered. We’re excited to announce that Play’s zoom mode is finally here! With our latest release, version 0.9.14, you can view your designs zoomed out down to 40% or zoomed in up to 200%. Play’s zoom mode allows you to better see and edit both…

Design, prototype, and collaborate directly from your phone. Design tools haven’t been created with mobile in mind. Our mobile devices are the central way we consume content and connect to the world around us. Yet, we still design mobile products solely on our desktops using tools rooted in traditional graphic design processes. These multi-purpose design tools are used to…

Want to do more than just mirror your Figma designs on mobile? With Play’s new Figma import, you can edit your designs, add advanced interactions, and take advantage of native iOS features—directly from your phone. — Play is the only design tool purpose-built for creating mobile products. We recently updated our Figma import feature, which lets you import your Figma components, styles and full pages directly into Play where you can continue designing and incorporate other powerful features Play has to offer.

A new approach to mobile product design with Play. — Whatever you’re designing, designing is deciding. From the outside, a finished design — whether a book, building, dome or app — can appear as a clockwork tapestry of decisions, each expressing the confidence and taste of its makers. But ask a designer how they make their decisions, and you will…

Does our current process lead to better solutions, or are we just validating our initial designs? — Product teams will typically create prototypes to quickly evaluate and test solutions in an effort to make them better. Few people would disagree with that in theory, but when we think about how we often create prototypes in practice, it begs the question: Are we creating prototypes to iterate on…

What if it were possible to design and build a mobile product all on your phone — and what if it were a better way of working? — Struggling with the status quo Much has been written about the challenges product design teams face — the issues are manifold. The time it can take to sketch, design, prototype and test ideas. What design tool we should be using this month. The gaps in hand-offs and reference files throughout the working process. The developer…