The New York Times reports that companies are turning to gamification to hook customers and drive sales. The next step in the app-building revolution aims for efficiency, much like Ford’s assembly line– but for apps. Sure, you could design, build, and launch your own mobile app, but why inflict misery on yourself when Proto.io can make it easier and faster, and best of all effortless.

Imagine getting world-class mobile apps, mobile websites, and web apps, creating stunning interactive mobile prototypes, and getting a real app experience -all right from the prototyping stage and without the hassles of writing code.

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That’s the whole idea behind Proto.io, an innovative mobile prototyping tool for building a sophisticated fully interactive app prototype. Proto.io is a new IU prototyping tool specifically designed for building sophisticated and fully functional mobile applications. Its web-based platform allows users to create a project for popular mobile devices like iPhones, iPad, Android-powered smartphones, and as well as any handheld devices. The best thing about Proto.io is that it only takes a minute to create a fully functional, interactive prototype-all without a line of code. This is mobile prototyping at the next level.

Proto.io makes a good first impression, with its user-friendly UI and plenty of great features to get you started, you can start a project by going straight to high-fidelity prototypes with those ready-made mobile UI components or you can import your own designs. Using Proto.io, users can express and visualize their ideas and even bring them closer to reality. The word “easy” is usually not found anywhere near the term “animation” in a sentence describing interactive animation and for good reason-creating or applying animation to apps has become a specialized task that requires highly sophisticated software and a huge learning process. Proto.io is an attempt to let designers shorten the path from ideas to prototyping.

This UI prototyping tool can support all the major mobile gestures and touch events, according to the company. This means that developers will no longer be limited to a single “link” transition, instead, they can apply any animated screen transitions like a slide. Additionally, this development tool can also apply basic animations to any UI element from the prototyping like rotation and scale- it’s a dream tool for UI designers.

With proto.io, developing mobile applications can be easy and more productive. Developers can do anything in Proto.io; they can experiment with different interactions, transitions, gestures, and touch events in just a few minutes. It’s certainly possible to whip up some tasty good looking web apps and mobile websites with Proto.io, developers get all they need. More importantly, they will be able to get the real app experience right from the prototyping stage- express and visualize their own ideas, and brainstorm.

Proto.io is probably one of the best UI prototyping tools in the market today. It’s definitely the only tool that can best simulate and test a realistic representation of mobile websites or mobile apps- how real mobile apps look, behave, and interact.

Proto.io is an industry-leading prototyping platform. It gives designers, entrepreneurs, developers, and anyone with a great idea the power to create fully-interactive web and mobile prototypes of any fidelity that look and work exactly like a real app — all without a single line of code.