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This article is from August 21, 2013, and is no longer current.
Build and Preview HTML5 Animations for Mobile Devices with Tumult Hype 2.0
Animation is a key feature in all kinds of creative work including web design, digital publications, apps, and advertising. And on the Mac, Tumult Hype is among the most powerful tools for creating HTML5 animations.
Version 2.0 of Hype has just been released and boasts many new features, including full support for interactive audio content, web fonts, curved motion paths, extended browser compatibility, enhanced search engine visibility, and more. Hype 2.0 also comes with Hype Reflect, a separate app for instantly previewing HTML5 animations on Apple mobile devices.
If you’re not a web designer, you might think that Hype’s animations aren’t for you. But HTML5 animations aren’t just for the web. They can be used in Adobe DPS publications, iBooks Author widgets, and other ebooks as well.
From now until September 10th, Tumult is offering a sepcial discount so you can get Tumult Hype for $29.99 (50% off the regular price).
To learn more about the new features of Tumult Hype and Hype Reflect, visit tumult.com.
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Indeed, cleverly put animations will definitely elevate the user experience of a website or an app or an advertisement. But developers and designers have to make sure that they use animations to augment the user experience and not hinder it. There is a fine line, which if crossed can lead to animations resulting in a headache for users rather than pleasing them.
Long gone are the days when websites used to flash red, black and white backgrounds continuously for more emphasis, or the website headers used to change by an animation of crumbling blocks or when using the <marquee> tag in HTML meant giving your web page some animations. The human race has evolved and so has the art of web designing and using animations in it. So, I think such easy-to-use tools will only give rise to amateur users developing unrefined and unnecessary animations since they lack the sense of fashion. Only a user experience expert or a designer who puts in proper thoughts in designing a web page or an app or an advertisement banner would be able to better understand the importance of a proper animation at a proper place and they have been doing their job very well even without such tools.
Mark,
https://www.elantechnologies.com