You may have already download or read about it (newsletter went out few hours ago). Version 1.4 is already live and brings a few (but important) updates. Fact is we would love to add more “stuff” there but, due the current interface limitation, we simply couldn’t. However, the new button system prepares the way for new kinds of interactions, you will see in version 1.5. Below, a quick glimpse of the new interface: Although we are not disclosing any new feature yet, you can see that it less cluttered, with features categorized. This approach (we hope) will enable us to add more resources, simplifying the way you access them. Besides the new interface, the main topic for 1.5 is animation! We are adding a series…

With 1.2 delivered, we are taking a moment to learn more what our users really wants us to prioritize for the next updates. As most of you know, we have an open forum via email, Twitter and the forums, however we are planning to receive a massive amount of information to take best decisions. Saying that, we invite you to check our first “Kwik Survey”, available at http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22CJJ5T7H62. When we close this questionnaire, in the next days, we will have a better view of who you are, and what is more important for you. Thanks for doing that! On the same topic, you have noticed that our version updates (not the small ones fixing bugs) have been delivered, in average, every 20 days. This is…

We are busy here finishing to code a few more features and polishing some of the current ones, before to make v1.2 available. As always, we are listening your comments, suggestions and concerns, and taking them in consideration in feature prioritization. However, not all requests will be available in the next update. So, I would like to ask you a little of patience if your favorite feature/request is not listed below. Before I mention what is coming, I would like to share a quick anecdote with you all. Yesterday we had a customer not happy with the way we handle layer names and his comment was “In Flash, if I delete an object or a graphic, rename it, whatever, it’s smart enough to know”. For…

As promised, we would like to share with you our plans for future releases. We have received (and hope to keep receiving) lots of feature suggestions and, being a small team yet, we need to make the right choices. Clearly we have two main groups of users, with different needs and requests .Internally we call them designers and coders. Designers want more control on animations and interactions.  Their requests are, in general, related to more animation types, new page transitions and audio controls. Most of them are using Kwik to create interactive books or magazines. Coders, generally non-professional developers or designers with development experience, want more features, variable and logic controls, physics, and UI mockup tools. Currently they use Kwik mostly to create comics or…

Less than 3 weeks ago we launched a revolutionary plugin for Photoshop. With Kwik, creative users can create animated comics and interactive books direct from their comps. Yesterday, we announced v1.1 with features that bring even more possibilities to our users. In fact, most of the new features come from direct feedback from our yet small but passionate community of users. The list includes: Audio: Any kind of button can have optional audio attached to. For example, Go To Page buttons can play a “click” sound before going to other pages. Even more important, Page Audio offers now controls for looping and delay. This is a feature requested from several users, wanting better control of when and how their background audio plays. Buttons: 2 new…