Tutorial: How to design interactive prototypes with Penpot
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As UI and UX designers, we’re pretty limited by how much we can convey in static visuals. Interactive prototypes are a handy way to show exactly how our designs should behave. More on prototyping here: penpot.app/blog/creating-inte...
Clicking through an interactive flow is valuable when demonstrating user journeys to stakeholders, handing off designs to developers, or even doing early-stage user testing.
In this tutorial, Laura introduces some of the most common interactions to use with prototypes using Penpot. Penpot is brilliant for prototyping because you can work with your existing designs, whether they’re quick wireframes or high-fidelity mockups, and you don’t need to be able to code to create life-like interactions.
Find the Prototype examples template in our Libraries & Templates collection: penpot.app/libraries-templates
Read a step-by-step tutorial for creating interactive prototypes with Penpot on our blog: penpot.app/blog/creating-inte...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro on how to design interactive prototypes in Penpot
00:13:04 Prototype navigating between views
03:17:22 Prototype hover and active styles
05:59:01 Prototype state changes
07:43:05 Prototype overlays
09:37:00 Wrap up
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Great tutorial! Thanks, Laura... and yes, please make more of these. Greetings to you and Aral.
I'm a developer that struggles with design so this stuff is very helpful. If you're looking for suggestions a 'how to build a responsive design website' series would be very welcome 🙂
My wife is a ui designer and she uses figma at work. I happen to sit with her sometimes and I'm impressed by the prototype and seeing the results. (We both know abt penpot already (but not using). Anyway I wanted to try it so I will be using penpot. So thanks for this video.
@Penpot
29 күн бұрын
Thanks for your words! We hope you can join Penpot soon :)
Thanks for the insights. I think I will make the switch from XD to Penpot soon.
Loved the tutorial
Awesome! Would like more tutorials like these.
@Penpot
Күн бұрын
Yes! There will be more 😊
Now we have overlays. Cool!
Thanks for the tutorial. I'm quite new to penpot. But what about scrolling? It's the most basic interaction, but I don't get it work.
This is awesome
Do you guys have a desktop app for Macos or Windows?
This soft looks very prommising 😊 Any possible way to use penpod offline?
why use ''group'' and not a component? thanks!
@Penpot
4 күн бұрын
Hi! You can use either a component or a group. These designs are standalone examples so there wasn’t much need to use components. Thank you!
Are there any plans to add smart animations? 🤔👀
the constant zooming and panning is too distracting.
@Penpot
Күн бұрын
Thanks for your feedback. We'll take it into account for next video.