3 reasons I recommend Principle for Mac

Principle for Mac was developed by the previous Apple engineer ‘Daniel Hooper’. And I think that he made such a remarkable application which easily animates your Sketch design.

We already know that there are various prototyping animation tools. Framers, Flinto, UXPin, Invisionapp and so on… But, I think that Principle for Mac has a potentional to be populated among designers.

3 reasons that I recommend Principle for you

First, Principle makes a great quality animation based on your design. You might think Framer as one of the best UI animation tool in this area. I agree with it. By the way Principle seems that it doesn’t fall behind Framer in the race. Look at the animation that I created with Principle below.

Second, Principle is really easy to learn and use. I think that the weakness of Framer is not to easy. You have to learn Javascript or Coffeescript to create an animation. If you already have an experience to code, it could be no problem. But, I guess that mostly designers wouldn’t be good at coding. Designers are normally reactive to visible things or objects. Photoshop, illustrators and Sketch, those tools which desingers use everyday follows that notion.

Therefore Principle for Mac tries a different approach from Framer. Principle for Mac has almost same interface like Sketch which UI designers mostly use in these days. So you don’t need to learn the interface of Principle.

Also, Principle’s way to animate between artboards is like using Magic Move on Keynote. Let me say that it just works!

Third, Principle has various options to share your animation. Principle can export an animation work to an independent Mac app. So even though an user doesn’t have Principle for Mac, he or she can open and run it on his/her Mac. And it can also export animations to video or animated GIF file. I love this feature. I can share animations from Principle through all kind of channels, Facebook, Messanger, Twitter, Dribble, etc.

I think Principle team strategically put this into Principle for marketing.

Some ideas for Principle for Mac

Principle recently released version 1.2. And I think that they are rapidly updating Principle in the near future.

Through my experience I come up with several ideas for Principle.

• More options to control audio and video layers’ properties.
• Easily add a typing animation
• Share the animation through web
• AppleScript support

Principle Examples

Principle References

• Principle for Mac
• Principle Repo

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LG found their own path.

I think that LG tries to be the best. It finally found their own path to innovate.

LG succeeded to put a finger print sensor into their smarthphone’s screen.

According to this What is Apple going to do with their iPhone7? I hope that Apple does this thing,too.

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Why does Google build smart lenses?

Google always wants to build a platform for advertising. By the way Google’s territory has been limited to online ads.

Let’s us think about a display ad on offline. Sometimes you might see a special offer which is advertised on a shop’s external display and then you visit the shop to look around what their product or service is. In this case a conversion was created by the offline display ad. But, Google can’t track this so far.

Smart lenses for offline advertising

If you wear smart lenses, Google might be able to track what you see on the offline and then Google can track how a conversion is created on the offline. So Google’s advertising service could be expanded to the offline.

Recently Google got succeeded to develop a smart lense. If this is commercialized, the case above could be happend in the near future.

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Will the type 1 diabetes be conquered?

My fater has had a diabets for long time. And recently I read this article which could be a real solution for ultimately curing diabetes.

I hope that this solution is commercialized as soon as possible.

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The killer app for iPad Pro with Apple Pencil

Apple has been struggled to boost iPad’s sales. The recent Apple’s earning call also warned that the sales of iPad are getting difficult to boot even though Apple launched a brand new product calling iPad Pro.

So I would like to suggest that Apple should focus on popularizing iPad Pro’s Apple Pencil to normal users.

What if you can draw a rectangle on Apple Keynote software on iPad Pro? It could be a seeling point of iPad Pro to normal users.

The combination of Keynote app on iPad Pro + Apple Pencil would be better than Keynote app on Mac. Because drawing functionality will attract normal users into Keynote for iOS.

So I hope that Apple is already preparing an update of Keynote for iOS which is fully compatible with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. And I think that the pencil drawing function should be added to Keynote for iOS.

I have beein Keynote user since 2005. And if the update that I described above is released, I will definately buy iPad Pro with Apple Pencil to change my presentation device from Mac.

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Remove "Desktop Video Firmware Updater" process in Mac

One day I found a process named Desktop Video Firmware Updater which has an ugly icon on the system activity app on Mac and then I figured out it was from Blackmagic Design software which I installed at the past time. But, I don’t use it now.

I tried to kill the process, but, I couldn’t do it. So I found the location of the execution file at the link below,

/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Blackmagic DeckLink/Desktop Video Firmware Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Desktop Video Firmware Updater

After removing it I finally can’t see it on the activity window. If someone has used Blackmagic Design software on Mac, please refer this post to clean up your processes on Mac.

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OmniFocus Review Perspective action using Launch Center Pro

At every night I have a time to review OmniFocus’s perspectives. But, it has been painful to tap another view back and forth in OmniFocus.

So I thoguht how I can make a flow of it. And which one would be the best tool to implement this?

My requirements are below,

1. The user interface shows a perspective list that I can easily tap.
2. After tapping I should be able to have a time to review on the perspective in OmniFocus.
3. Without scrolling I should be able to choose another perspective.

To achieve the second one, I picked up Launch Center Pro as a right choice. Because the callback function calling lc-callback can give me a time to review a perspective in OmniFocus.

If you use x-callback-url, it automatically goes back to the origin app. So I wouldn’t have a time for reviewing a perspective.

So here is my lcp action.

[list:Daily Check|Daily Check=[action:131]|Deferred=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Deferred}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Delegated=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Delegated}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Next=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Next Actions}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Dayone=dayone://?lc-callback=[action:129]]

[action: 131] : It shows the daily check routine perspective that I made in OmniFocus. [action: 129] : It should be the action itself.

I considered using Workflow which is one of my favorite apps in iOS. But, in this case Launch Center Pro did a great job.

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