Why I love Protopie to create micro-interactions — Work in progress • Issue #4

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Hello readers. Welcome to the 4th issue of Work in Progress. For this issue, these are the following agenda

1. Mental model and features that make Protopie the best tool for creating production-close interaction design
2. The tool I use to export my interaction design GIFs for stakeholder presentation
3. Tweet of the week

Protopie love

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While I was collecting some protopie demos to showcase under my “Fun” landing page, featured in Issue #3, I was also onboarding a teammate last week to Protopie at work. This led me to retrospect on why I like the tool and how it stands out from other motion tools in the market.

Before diving into the features, I want to list the essential benefits that helped me become a better product designer since I started using it.

1. It helped me go from how it looks to how it behaves. Even when designing a single screen these days, I always think about if it should react to scroll, tap, or other gestures
2. It helped me focus on the end-to-end journey, screen transitions, and…