Custom Easing Curves in Haiku

Custom Easing Curves in Haiku

January 27, 2019

There's no set of pre-made curves capable of satisfying all use cases. That's why we're adding Custom easing curves to Haiku. They allow a fine-grained control over the personality…

From Figma to React with Haiku

From Figma to React with Haiku

January 23, 2019

tutorial

Haiku allows you to bring your Figma designs to life by easily animating and publishing them as clean React components. This tutorial will guide you through the process. Design…

What we learned from our first remote team summit

What we learned from our first remote team summit

January 21, 2019

culture

As some of you know, Haiku is a growing start-up dedicated to creating products that help designers and developers work more seamlessly together. Our team is small, composed of…

Accessing Summonables from Actions

Accessing Summonables from Actions

December 17, 2018

code

In previous articles and tutorials we've covered how to use Actions and Expressions in order to add interactivity to your projects. In this post we'll dig deeper into how…

Handling mouse and touch in Haiku

Handling mouse and touch in Haiku

December 11, 2018

code

Developing user interfaces that work anywhere is a necessity, but it's not easy in a landscape where devices are constantly evolving and supporting new modes of interaction. Take…

Understanding Actions

Understanding Actions

December 05, 2018

basics

In this blog post we'll be taking a close look at Actions. We'll review the two different types of Actions available in Haiku, and what each of them is for. Let's start by talking…

Introduction to Path Morphing

Introduction to Path Morphing

November 04, 2018

How To Path morphing in Haiku is as simple as double-clicking a path on stage and moving its points (vertices). The technique can be used to great effect and is not just for…

Understanding States step by step

Understanding States step by step

October 25, 2018

basics

As you probably know by now, Haiku is a powerful tool to create pieces of UI, also known as “components”, that are ready to be snapped into any codebase. If you've ever used a UI…

Reusing logic with Helpers

Reusing logic with Helpers

September 19, 2018

code

As a designer or developer, you are used to facing the challenge of abstracting building blocks. Abstraction is a very powerful tool, that among many other benefits allows you to…

Animating Elements Along Curved Paths

Animating Elements Along Curved Paths

September 13, 2018

In previous tutorials and other resources we've covered what haiku was built for and how to get started using the drawing/design tools you already use and love, like Sketch…

Kickstart Design & Development with Forks 🍴

Kickstart Design & Development with Forks 🍴

May 11, 2018

Today we're announcing our community showcase —a place where you can showcase your creations and kickstart your design and development process by forking projects. Showcased…

Figma ➟ Haiku integration, delivering motion.

Figma ➟ Haiku integration, delivering motion.

March 22, 2018

It's an exciting time to be a designer. At Haiku, we're on a mission to empower product teams to add rich, interactive motion to their designs, while bridging the gap between…

Mimicking the Medium Clap Animation with Sketch and Haiku

Mimicking the Medium Clap Animation with Sketch and Haiku

March 10, 2018

This is a guest post by Kyle Gill. This post originally appeared on Medium . Export to React, after designing in Sketch, and tweaking keyframes in Haiku. Making Animation…

Vue Animations with Sketch + Haiku

Vue Animations with Sketch + Haiku

February 27, 2018

code

Have you ever painstakingly built an animation using code — JavaScript, or Core Animation, or CSS — and thought there must be a better way ? Have you ever dreamed of a tool that…

Introducing Haiku 🎉

Introducing Haiku 🎉

February 01, 2018

Haiku is a design tool for animated user interfaces — for real apps. Think of it as a design portal to your team's codebase. Use Haiku to: Design imaginative UI components Snap…

Progress bar tutorial

Progress bar tutorial

January 05, 2018

Here we'll show how to use Haiku to create a small, practical component — file upload progress bar — and get it running in a real web app. For this tutorial, we'll imagine that…

Designing the Real Thing with Haiku Actions

Designing the Real Thing with Haiku Actions

December 21, 2017

Let’s explore using Actions in Haiku to create the following interactive design: The actual haiku http://bit.ly/2CXrjD1 has *far superior quality than the gif the shown here…

Motion design for the web, iOS & Android with Haiku

Motion design for the web, iOS & Android with Haiku

December 12, 2017

A common design goal of modern digital products is to surprise and delight users, and motion design can be a powerful tool in your arsenal to do that. Entertaining loading…

Lottie Without After Effects

Lottie Without After Effects

November 06, 2017

Lottie Who? The process of creating motion for mobile felt broken up until Airbnb released a stunning open source library called Lottie . Prior to then (Feb. 2017), creating…