Sharing Work Today

During the design process, mobile designs are typically viewed exclusively on a desktop computer. When it’s time to share the prototype with engineers and stakeholders, teams often demo the design via desktop screen-share or skip the live walkthrough and send a video instead.

Why does this seem so universally true? Because experiencing high-quality prototypes on our phones is a painful and clunky process.

Whether your biggest pain point is installing a new app or the sizing, color, and rendering issues that inevitably come when viewing a web simulation, the current options for experiencing prototypes on your phone don’t do a great job of conveying the intention of your design.

Sharing Work with Play

We believe your design will be better if it’s experienced in its native context (in this case an iOS device) throughout the design process, not just at the end. We’re also committed to solving the pain points touched on above.

With our new App Clips feature, you can share your prototype to any iPhone without barriers like app installation or account creation. Once a user scans or taps your App Clip link, they can start interacting with your native prototype immediately, as if it were a real app.

Play’s prototypes (both in-app and via App Clips) are rendered with the same technology as a finished mobile app. This makes it easy to harness all that Apple has to offer by tapping into their ecosystem. Use native iOS elements like maps, date pickers, modals, tab bars, and nav bars. Create interactions using Apple’s Core Animation and by accessing device hardware to tap into the camera, haptics, and gyroscope.

Play is a powerful way to design mobile apps, and Play Mode via App Clips is a powerful way to make native designs fully accessible.

You can start for free today by installing our macOS and iOS apps!