Employees at Pixate will now be joining Google’s design team.
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“Pixate will continue as a standalone product without any interruption to the service or support”.
He added that Pixate Studio would now be available for free with the price of Pixate’s cloud service “dramatically reducing”.
Pixate is one of the world’s most popular and innovative services for mobile interaction design, assisting developers and designers alike to create complex animations within their apps without the need to write a single line of code. There is a paid Pixate cloud plan that enables features which allow you to work collaboratively with a team and that is dropping to $5 a month.
Pixate, a startup based in Palo Alto, Calif., counted venture firm Accel Partners and startup accelerator Y Combinator among its investors. “We don’t want to stop there”.
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“Our small team at Pixate has some really big ideas, and with the help of Google we’ll be able to bring those ideas to the design community at scale”, said Paul Colton, CEO of Pixate. Pixate helps developers more quickly and easily design and build their applications on Android and Apple Inc. mobile devices, according to its website. Pixate’s acquisition is the second major step the company has made in this front. The acquisition is also interesting for Google, which snapped up Relative Wave late past year. Relative Wave uses Visual Programming language in the backend for the development of prototype apps. It already started working on Form 1.3 and some other tools are likely to be announced in the coming future.
