Adding Flexitive Widgets

In Flexitive, Widgets allow you to add interactive components to your designs, such as a rotating Carousel, or a Legal Widget. Flexitive Widgets can be added to a page by clicking the ‘Rocket’ icon on the left navigation bar.

The widgets available in Flexitive are:

If a widget is not available in your account, reach out to your account manager or to a member of the Flexitive Support Team (support@flexitive.com).

You can learn more about Flexitive widgets here.

The Benefits of Web Fonts

By adding text as a web font rather than as an image, your text elements will be responsive, easy to edit, and simple to scale across sizes. Web fonts can be easily edited inside Flexitive and include a scrolling option, which is perfect for large blocks of text.

Web fonts are also very light on file size and don’t compress on export.

With Flexitive, you’ll have access to over 700 free web fonts, including Google web fonts and fonts.com fonts. With a fonts.com subscription, you can access over 22,000 web fonts. You can also choose to upload your own custom webfont.

You can choose to embed web fonts directly into your design file when exporting your design. Embedding is ideal for displaying offline designs to digital signage or platforms that don’t allow third-party calls, like Google Ads (AdWords).

To learn more, check out our article on Text as Web Fonts vs Images.

Embedding Responsive and Interactive Content

With embedded pages, you can use any Flexitive design as a live element in your design.

A responsive embedded page adapts to any size or aspect ratios it’s displayed in. The adaptive nature of embedded pages makes it easy to scale your design across unlimited sizes.

With embedded pages, you can save hours of design time and ensure consistency across your designs. Learn more about embedding responsive and interactive content here.

Click-Through URLs

Drive more traffic and engagement by applying a click-through URL to your whole design or just a specific element. A click-through URL is a location the viewer is redirected to when they click on a certain part of the design. You can link to a website, a phone number, map location, app, and more.

In Flexitive, there are two main types of click-through URLs: Background URLs and Element URLs.

  • Background URLs make it so that the entirety of the design can be clicked on to redirect the viewer. Background URLs sit below any click-throughs you add to an element.
  • Element URLs make it so that only a certain element can be clicked on to redirect the viewer. A click-through URL on an element will override any click-through URL set on a background behind that element.

Flexitive also supports multiple click-through URLs so you can set a background click-through and an element click-through for each element. Learn more about Click-Through URLs here.

Flexitive Desktop Apps

Flexitive for Desktop is the best way to use the Flexitive Design Cloud on Windows and Mac.

Multitasking is Easy

With Flexitive for Desktop on Windows and Mac, you can view and edit multiple designs at the same time. An overview of multiple designs is particularly useful when working with embedded pages, copying and pasting text from one design to another, and when comparing different versions of designs.

Speed up your Workflow

Quickly access Flexitive for Desktop from your dock or taskbar. Now you can easily switch between Flexitive and other design tools to speed up your workflow.

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Previewing Animation Effects

Animations in Flexitive are built for speed, and are easy and intuitive to use. Flexitive animations scale quickly to many sizes and look good on any browser.

Quickly preview any of over 50 animation effects before applying it to your selected element. View the animation effect on-canvas from within the editor by using the play button to the right of the animation effect you want to preview.

Once completed, you can preview the animation sequence by selecting the play button on the Animation Frames Panel. You can preview your animations in both the editor for a single size and the All Sizes View.

Learn more about Animations in Flexitive here.

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IAB Releases New Flexible Ad Specs

The IAB has released new flexible ad specs as part of its New Ad Portfolio, which includes a major upgrade to the global ad specifications & usability. For the last 2 years, the IAB Tech Lab has been working closely with industry partners including the Flexitive Design Cloud team, to create a new set of standards based on flexible ads that adapt to the screens of devices and responsive sites/apps of today and the future.

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Design in Tech Report 2017 Shows Accelerated Growth

The Design in Tech Report 2017 has come out recently, highlighting the continuous, accelerated growth of tech companies hiring for design. We thought we would highlight a couple of interesting slides:

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What are HTML5 Ads?

HTML5 ads are the replacement for Flash-based ads that designers often built when they wanted to use animations or interactivity in their design. Flash was used extensively from the early 2000s through to 2016. Flash support started falling considerably after 2010 due to mobile operating systems like Apple’s iOS not supporting Flash, and Google’s Android having limited support.

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