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Adobe XD
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Easy to use interface
It's easy to be productive immediately with XD but it also includes a demo so that you can learn about some of the more powerful features.
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No tools for animation
It is possible to create transitions, but this feature is very limited.
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Cross platform
It's available on both macOS and Windows.
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Only good for mockups
XD is not a multi-purpose tool like Sketch. It is not a good tool for logos, icons, or other design assets.
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Repeat grid is a timesaver
Creating a list of items is simple with "repeat grid." Just create one and use repeat grid to duplicate that item vertically or horizontally. Then drag and drop text or images to create unique entries for each repeated item.
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UI Kits are available for iOS, Material Design, and more
Includes: iOS Google Material Design Windows UWP Wireframes
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Share online and gather feedback
Allows mockups to be pushed to the web where collaborators can try the mockup and leave feedback.
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Interactive mockups
XD allows you to wire any object to any destination page so that clicking a button asset will take you to a page that you specify. Mockups can also simulate a scrolling page or window.
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ProtoPie
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Smooth and gradual learning curve
As the interface is very clean and simple, it enables you to create interactions by combining objects, triggers and responses just like that. No need for wireframing or shitty mockups, just get to hi-fi prototyping right away.
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Native prototyping
Deploy prototypes on any device right away. What's the point of prototyping mobile apps if you cannot deploy it on your mobile devices easily?
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IoT, Interactions across devices
Create prototypes e.g. chat platforms, payment apps etc. and deploy them on multiple devices and have them communicate with each other.
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Utilizes sensors very easily
Easily control the sensors of smart devices in your prototype, such as tilt, sound, compass, proximity sensor, vibration motor and 3D Touch sensors.
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Runs on Mac and Windows
It offers the same features on both MacOS and Windows. Plus, you can switch machines as long as you are logged in to ProtoPie Studio.
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Fast and easy sharing
Sharing is very easy via the cloud. Open the prototype in desktop or mobile browser, or deploy the prototype on the ProtoPie Player app. All is possible.
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Code Free
No coding needed to do interactions for your prototypes. You just choose the objects and link them with the triggers and responses you want to based on your preferred interactions.
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Platforms:
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File​Diffs
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Allows you to open diffs in external diff tool
Instead of creating a new tab with the diff in it, you can tell FileDiffs to open the diff in an external diff tool for side by side comparison and other features.
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Doesn't have side by side comparison
After running FileDiffs, it creates a new diff file in a new tab, which doesn't have the benefit of showing the diffs in context. However, it is possible to open the diff in an external diff tool instead of creating a new tab.
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Easily compare arbitrary code sections
FileDiffs allows you to compare any arbitrary text through multiple commands: Compare the current file or selection with any other file via a file select menu Compare the current file or selection file with previously selected tab or window or panel Compare the current file or selection with your clipboard Compare between two selections through Sublime Text's multi-select feature
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Command pallet integration
In addition to providing shortcut commands for custom shortcuts, FileDiffs adds new command pallet entries. If you don't use diffs often enough to warrant memorizing a new shortcut command, the command pallet provides a quick and easy way to access the plugin.
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Emmet
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Makes writing CSS really fast
Emmet does not only work with HTML, but also CSS.
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Requires pyv8
Emmet is a Javascript addon, and it requires pyv8 (python-javascript bridge) to run.
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Makes writing HTML really fast
Either watch the video below or read this article to see all the things you can do with Emmet. the video link is absent
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UXPin
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UXPin has great advanced features for prototyping
integration if this then dop that and custom javascript functionality
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Expensive subscription model
$29 per user/mo ($350 pa) will soon rack up compared to a standalone product like Axure PRO ($450) which has a license that lasts years (they have given out free updates for the last 2 versions).
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Actively developed
UXPin is constantly being updated with new features.
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Steep learning curve
UXPin is one of the more complex prototyping tools. Combined with a lack of documentation, it can be discouraging for first time users.
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Import from PhotoShop and Sketch
A pro UXPin account will allow you to import existing projects from PhotoShop or Sketch.
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Extensive library of elements and patterns
UXPin offers elements from a wide range libraries. This includes responsive frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation, and libraries specific to mobile prototyping.
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sublimious
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Pre-configured with layers
Whenever you need to work on a new language that you don't have plugins for yet, you can choose to check if sublimious has a layer for that language. If it does, all you need to do is activate it and sublimious will automatically download all plugins you need for that language, add keybindings for efficient usage and set the optimal settings for these plugins.
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VIM centric
This plugin is perfect for VIM fanatics. It tries to add VIM keybindings to everything, even to where you didn't know it was possible like the sublime text overlay or the sidebar
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Ergonomic shortcuts
sublimious adds shortcuts that actually make sense. "p f" for example searches files in the current project. "g s" executes "git status" and so on, you get the idea. It even comes with a helper that shows you what shortcuts are available.
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SideBar Enhancements
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Adds goodness to context of clicks
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Data collection
SE ships your data off to Kite.
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Adds a ton of functionality to the sidebar
Move to trash Clipboard Open in browser Copy the content of a file as data:uri base64 Close, move, open and restore buffers affected by a rename/move command Copy as tags img/a/script/style Duplicate Preference to control if a buffer should be closed when affected by a deletion operation Allows to display "file modified date" and "file size" on statusbar
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ST2 version is not maintained anymore
The last ST2 version is available here. All future functionality will be added only to the ST3 version.
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HotGloo
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Seamless
HotGloo's interface is designed to be intuitive. You won't have to invest a lot of time in trying to figure out how it works. You can jump straight into work and rely on the abundance of tutorials, webinars, and documentation in case you get stuck.
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Expensive subscription model
$27 a month soon racks up to a lot of money, a standalone product will be much cheaper in the long run.
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Interactive
HotGloo makes collaboration and interaction easy. You can add others to your account and send projects for review and feedback rounds.
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Principle
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Comprehensive help & examples
You can find videos for the Principle app course here.
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Mac only
Sadly iOS centric.
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Simple Sketch import
Import Sketch layers easily to animate your designs.
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Build iOS transitions & animations easily
All the iOS easing info is built-in.
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Axure
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Supports web and mobile prototyping 
Allows creation of interactive HTML mock-ups which is accessible for both websites and mobile applications.
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Moderate learning curve
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Lots of options for sharing your work
Great web options, but you can also save your wire frames out to Word and convert the notes to annotations.
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Expensive [$289-$589] 
There is a free trial to work with Axure, but there is a hefty price for the standard edition at $289. Even more so, the Pro edition will cost $589.
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Resuable components
You can create a component (widget) that you can use over and over again.
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Cross-platform 
Available for use on Windows and Mac.
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Collaboration tools
You can set up a project with SVN-like check-in/out system to work with others.
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Offers resources to help you get proficient with the software
There is a wealth of online training including videos for getting the basics down, a great community to mine, and support team to help assist with more technical details.
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Platforms:
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Sublimerge
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Three-way diff allows easy merging of files
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Bad tech support
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sublimerge
i recommend Sublimerge
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It's NOT Open Source
You can't fix or, implement nothing. And when the developer abandons the project you will be left in the lurch.
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Highlights intraline changes
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It's not free
Nither as free price nor as free in freedom.
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Built-in support for Git, Subversion and Mercurial commands
Sublimerge automatically integrates with your version control history, and lets you compare between revisions, branches, remotes, and the staging area.
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Cannot compare text within the same file
Sublimerge can only compare entire file diffs, but not two selections within a file. Comparing within files can be useful for example, by refactoring two similar functions to use a shared function. With Sublimerge, you need to copy the sections into two new temporary tabs and compare between the two. This can be cumbersome, as if you have another untitled file, you won't be able to know which one is which.
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Can compare to clipboard contents
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No version control integration
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Proto
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It allows you to use JSON animations (such as Lottie)
That's awesome.
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The mobile app for previews doesn't look as good as the preview on the browser
That can be very disappointing. Once you have everything perfect the design becomes different when you open it on your mobile app.
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Has one of the largest gestural support libraries in the market
Proto supports one of the (if not the) largest gestural support libraries out of all the prototyping tools. With gestures such as: Pinchin/out Swipes Double tap Tap Hold Release and more...
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Since it opens on browser, it can get very laggy
Once you start using lots of images, vectors and animations you can go into deep trouble.
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Native prototype testing
Developers can build prototypes through the browser with Proto, but the testing itself is done on the devices. Proto has released native apps for both iOS and Android that developers to test their designs right on the native device itself.
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Only a free trial
Other prototyping tools offer free plans to trial as long as one wants, but Proto only offers a trial that while has full functionality has a 15 day time limit.
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Easy to use with it's intuitive drag-and-drop interface
Proto is very easy to use even for beginners, or programmers who are not well-versed in Photoshop or Sketch or any other drawing application. With it's easy drag-and-drop interface and with a wide library of commonly used UI elements for Android and iOS, prototyping with Proto is very simple.
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Prototyping can be relatively slow
Proto's animations and interactions are very detailed. As far as prototyping goes Proto is probably the best tool to get as close to the actual app as possible. But this brings the downside that prototyping with Proto becomes quite slow and can take several hours to finish to get everything to work perfectly.
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Design and prototype all in one tool
Better UX to not switch between multiple tools.
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Preview prototypes on the device (e.g. iPhone, Android phone)
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User testing / screen recording capabilities
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Noodl
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Use external data
You can use REST API to get data to your prototype.
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Free
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Cross-platform
It is a Chrome app and you can test prototypes on any device that supports WebGL or Canvas.
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Prototype two-device (master — companion) apps
You can setup communication between two devices.
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Components
You can build one interactive component and then reuse it with different input values (like images, txt, width, speed — any value you can imagine).
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Gulp
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Large plugin ecosystem
Currently gulp offers a selection of 1000+ plugins and it is growing rapidly.
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Dead
Gulp is dead, hasn't been updated in 4 years.
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Focuses on code instead of configuration
This depends on your style, but gulp is closer to the code, the actual execution isn't hidden by multiple layers and it's much easier to customize the build system without writing bloated modules. This also brings rather small configuration files.
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Rapidly changing API
While it's good that the gulp maintainers want the api to be as good as possible, it comes at the expense of stability. The upcoming gulp 4.0 release has another update to the way dependency management works which will require everyone to update their build scripts. It also makes it hard to look up information on best practices as the best practices keep changing, making a lot of the blog posts and questions about gulp out of date.
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Allows creating task dependencies
Any task can be set to have other tasks as dependencies. The dependencies are specified through piping streams, and tasks run concurrently if they do not block in dependencies.
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You need to know some limitations that are not very intuitive
There are some features in Gulp which may not be very intuitive, or that otherwise should have been the default features instead of having to implement them through arguments. For example, to keep the correct folder structure when you are copying a file, you have to add {base: "lib/"} as an argument.
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It is possible to use projects that use streams without plugins
Since Gulp just uses streams at its core, you don't actually need a plugin wrapper to use a project that uses streams. If you use this approach, the you don't even have to worry about plugin maintenance at all, and get the bleeding edge updates as soon as they come out even if the plugin hasn't been updated. It also means if a project happens to not have a plugin, you don't need to write a new one, you can just use it as is.
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No incremental building
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Streaming build system makes it easier to apply code transformations
In gulp, it's easy to pipe multiple steps together which you commonly need with build systems. For example, you may need to compile the javascript source files, then package them together, and then minify it. The streaming system makes this much easier. Additionally, it improves performance since all operations are done in memory (compared to I/O operations) and avoids the need of unnecessarily compiling files (compared to Grunt that has to compile all files even if just one has changed).
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Not suited for big and complex apps
Writing gulpfile for complex app which consists of many source types is very cumbersome and flawy process. You'll know when you want to move to webpack.
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Chaining API that's simple and elegant
In Gulp, the transforms are performed through chains which makes it easier to understand the order of operations, and easier to modify it.
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Concurrency allows for high-speed perfomance
Because streams in Gulp use pipes to establish dependency order, they are parallel by default without having to rely on plugins or hacks.
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Minimizes disk operations for improved performance
Because Gulp is built using streams, it can store intermediate transformations in memory and defer writing to disk until the very end. This improves performance by not requiring expensive blocking disk operations for task dependencies.
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The configuration file is easily readable
Gulp's configuration file is actually very readable because it's actual JavaScript instead of a large file of JSON objects. The entry barrier is very low for developers who have never used a task runner before and it's API is very simple, with only 4 methods.
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Gulp modules are usable without Gulp
Because Gulp is built on top of the streaming API, you don't actually need gulp to use them. This could be helpful if you want to re-use those modules outside of gulp, possibly for testing, and using the same modules would be more consistent.
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Gulp tasks run from terminal
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Framer Studio
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CoffeeScript integration to define animations
Framer uses coffeescript for defining animations. CoffeeScript has a low learning curve and as such it can be learned easily even by non-programmers.
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Coding required
Framer Studio uses CoffeeScript for prototyping the UI of an app. This can be a problem for designers who don't know CoffeeScript since they would be forced to learn a new programming language in order to use Framer.
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Multiple device support
Framer supports animation and interaction prototyping for multiple devices, ranging from desktop apps to web apps and mobile platforms. There are already 8 pre-installed devices to choose from, or developers can create their own setup quickly.
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Mac only
Framer Studio is only supported for Mac. There is no version for Windows or Linux.
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Photoshop & Sketch integration
Framer is integrated with Framer Generator, which allows developers to import layers directly from Adobe Photoshop and/or Sketch.
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Instant visual feedback
Framer Studio offers and instant preview of the animation that is currently being made.
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Prototyping on Paper
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Multiple device support
Prototyping on Paper supports both Android and iOS.
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Not well suited for complex prototypes
PoP is built to be a tool for quick prototyping, especially in participatory design sessions. For complex prototypes with a lot of screens it would require a large number of images to be used and this can make any project hard to maintain.
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Based on sketched wireframes
Prototypes made on PoP are based on sketches made on paper or a whiteboard, which are later photographed or scanned and uploaded into the app. Once that's done, hotspots can then be added, which register tapping or several gestures.
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Pretty JSON
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Can prettify with configurable indent and optional key sorting
To prettify look for "Pretty JSON: Format (Pretty Print) JSON" via Command Pallette. Indent, key sorting and ASCII ensurance can all be configured.
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Can convert JSON to XML
To convert JSON to XML look for "Pretty JSON: JSON 2 XML" via Command Pallette.
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Can minify
To compress/minify look for "Pretty JSON: Minify (compress) JSON" via Command Pallette.
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Can query
Query/filter requires ./jq and allows slicing, filtering, mapping and transforming data with ease. To query look for "Pretty JSON: jq query" via Command Pallette.
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Terminal.app
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Default terminal on Mac
Since it is already installed by default, you don't need to worry about finding and installing another terminal.
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Updates are released rarely
Terminal usually gets an update when any new MacOS version is released, which is every couple of years.
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Light on System Resources
Terminal.app lighter uses less system resources than iTerm having the same number of windows, tabs and processes going on.
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Tab names are volatile
The tab names never stick -- it's imperative that this should work.
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Great compatibility
Works with everything.
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Background images are stretched rather than clipped
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Easily open man pages
By right clicking on a highlighted string you can easily search through the man pages for that string and the man page will open in a nice pop up window.
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Occasionally crashes
Working remotely with a full buffer may cause complete terminal app crash.
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Excellent xterm emulation support
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Home and End keys require shift being pressed
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Beautiful
Terminal has nice colors and font options.
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Invision
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Free plan 
Invision offers a free plan to anyone that is limited to one project. While the free plan is a bit limited it does allow the user to trial the software for as long as they like to decide on its merits and whether it is worth paying for the more robust options.
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While Invision acts as an all-in-one environment for design, it may become a nuisance 
These times, teams are not using just a single app or tool for everything. It's not unheard of for teams to be using up to a dozen different tools for their work. Invision works as an all-in-one environment for product design and unfortunately it does not integrate with other tools. This may be a nuisance for teams that want to integrate different tools in their workflow.
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Presents designs in a way that mimics an actual web browsing experience
Once uploaded on Invision, the screen will be presented in a way that will behave as an actual web page. This is especially easy for showing the work to clients, more so if compared to just showing them a .PDF, which may make it look like the page is "too crowded".
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Expensive for just a hosting platform
Invision is a tool for building click through prototypes and getting feedback on them, you need to design everything in another app and upload them, it isn't a design tool.
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Supports gestures, transitions & animations for web, iOS & Android 
Hotspot links can be created for every page, and once it's done, for each one of them gestures and transitions can be registered. Invision supports various gesture types: swiping, double tapping, sliding, etc...
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Real-time collaboration and VOIP chat 
Live Share allows you to collaborate in real-time using an in-browser screen share. Each collaborator gets their own mouse, so you can easily point and see what someone is talking about. You can also sketch, and chat right inside the Live Share interface. Invision's Live Share gives team members the ability to collaborate in real-time through a screen share inside their browser. Each collaborator has their cursor which they can use and edit or add notes in real-time. On top of that, Invision also has a VOIP chat which works inside the browser.
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Design files are automatically synced and their version history tracked 
Invision uses Invision Sync or Dropbox to automatically save design files on the cloud. Furthermore, it has version control built in. This is especially helpful if a team is going through different versions for a specific design and they want to return again and again to previous designs.
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Great built-in feedback features 
Invision allows clients, stakeholders or any team members to leave comments and feedback inside the design which will be displayed as a point on the page itself. These paints can be discussed or even be turned into tasks. This makes it easy for designers to go through what they need to work on, and once it's done, the task can be checked off.
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Adobe After Effects CC
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Great for motion graphics compositing
Ae is the de facto standard for motion graphic design.
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No true 3D environment for compositing
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Huge amount of resources
Because of the popularity of Ae, there are a plethora of tutorials, presets, plug-ins, etc that can be used.
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No real-time features
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Extensive plug-in support
After Effects has extensive plug-in support. A broad range of third party plug-ins are available including solutions for particle systems, 3D environments and grading.
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Costly
The Adobe subscription costs are quite steep for anybody on a shoestring budget.
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C4D Lite & Cineware integration
After Effects CC includes a Lite version of MAXON CINEMA 4D, a 3D modeling, animation and rendering application.
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No stereoscopic editing support
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3D camera tracker
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Speedy and comfortable UI
After grasping what panels do what, the workspace feels safe and comfortable. And the timeline moves and shows things how you would expect it to.
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Works well with other Adobe software
This program is made to interact very well with the other Adobe production apps like Premiere Pro, Soundbooth, Photoshop and others. You can dynamically link with a set list of Adobe software so when you update something in Ae it will update in other software accordingly.
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Subscription / cloud-based model
Ensures you always have the latest version of the software. Allows saving preferences in the cloud, so you can load them on a different machine. You can even sync setting from a different user.
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Subscription based model
You constantly have the latest software that is updated regularly.
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Ray-traced and extruded text and shapes
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