Principle
Mar 19, 2025
5 MB
6.38
macOS 10.14 or later.
Description
Animate Your Ideas, Design Better Apps
Principle is a robust, engaging design tool featuring a sleek, user-friendly interface, extensive capabilities, and significant adaptability. Whether you are designing mobile applications, desktop software, or websites, Principle offers the resources and techniques needed to accomplish your goals.
Interface design
Principle can be used to create various types of user interfaces, including mobile apps, desktop apps, web design, and more. Users can choose from multiple preset templates or customize the design according to their needs. Users can create common user interface elements such as buttons, text boxes, images, and more with a simple drag-and-drop operation and combine them into a complete user interface.
Animation design
Principle is a professional animation design software that provides powerful animation design tools. Users can freely set various animation effects, such as moving, rotating, scaling, fading, etc., and can also adjust the timing, delay, and number of repetitions of the animation, as well as various other parameters.
Interaction design
Principle also provides a rich set of interaction design tools to help users create highly customized interactions. Users can achieve a variety of complex interactive effects by dragging and dropping, connecting, etc., such as swiping, clicking, pop-up boxes, and so on.
Prototype preview
Principle provides a prototype preview feature that allows users to preview animations and interactions in real-time during the design process to better adjust and optimize their designs.
View controller
Principle’s View Controller is a powerful tool that helps users create relationships and transitions across multiple screens and views. Users can create various view controllers by dragging and dropping, and add different transitions to them. These transitions can automatically play or respond to user actions, such as scrolling, tapping, and so on.
Code generation
Principle also provides code generation capabilities that allow you to export design files to a variety of code formats such as Swift, Objective-C, CSS, and more, making it easy for developers to use directly.
Advanced features
Principle also provides advanced features such as custom code, external data sources, and more. Users can customize the code to achieve more advanced interaction effects and data processing capabilities. Users can also integrate external data sources with their projects, such as APIs, databases, and so on, with their applications.