INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
That messaging app made waves with its minimalism, but quickly petered out
Now Arbel is back with a new company called Anima that could let app designers build more complex products in less time.Anima makes a set of
plug-ins for popular interface design platform Sketch
Auto-Layout creates responsive designs
Launchpad exports Sketch designs to HTML
circles is to work with a team you trust
Arbel and his co-founders have been building startups together for a decade
expanded team of engineers was working on a complex user interface for two months
Google and Facebook, and the startup is profitable
donation campaign to keep it running.Still, Timeline will have a tough time living up to the standards of these dominant companies
Turning design nuance into smooth code is exceedingly difficult
Other startups like Invision and Zeplin already offer products to simplify the design-to-code hand-off
trying to mitigate those risks
But if Anima can save them money, designers might give it a shot
