Overview
Framer is a visual design and prototyping tool for product design and front-end delivery, combining a drag-and-drop interface with React components to quickly build high-fidelity interactions and animations.
Core features and highlights
- Visual editing: canvas, layout, responsive adjustments, and live preview; supports pixel-perfect design.
- Real interactions and animation: built-in
Framer Motionsupports complex transitions, physics-based animations, and microinteractions. - Code and components: import or write
Reactcomponents to enable seamless handoff from design to production and to build reusable component libraries. - One-click publishing and hosting: built-in hosting, templates, and CMS support to quickly publish prototypes as live pages.
Use cases and target users
Ideal for product, interaction, and visual designers, front-end engineers, startups, and product managers. Use it to rapidly validate interactions, create presentable high-fidelity prototypes, or build and publish small websites and landing pages.
Key benefits
- High-fidelity interactions: accurately reproduce motion and experience for user testing and demos.
- Bridge from design to code: a
React-based component system brings design closer to engineering and reduces handoff costs. - Team collaboration and publishing: built-in collaboration, preview, and hosting features speed up iteration and launches.