Digital Solutions prototypes faster with Macaly

Digital Solutions develops enterprise applications and information systems tailored to clients' real needs. For years, we've been a trusted technology partner for companies like M&M Reality and Barth, and the creators of DigiSign – an online platform for digital document signing. This trust means a lot to us. We approach every project with maximum care because the tools we create aren't just software. They're systems that keep businesses running every day and help them grow.

My name is Michal Feltl, I'm Head of UX at Digital Solutions, and I lead a small team of four designers. Together, we design digital products that make sense and naturally fit into how people and businesses actually work. Our approach is built on close collaboration with clients and long-term involvement in the systems they use. We work side by side with our partners, helping transform complex requirements into simple, intuitive, and useful solutions.

Before we started using Macaly, we struggled with how to quickly and efficiently turn ideas into functional form. Creating clickable prototypes in Figma was time-consuming, and developing fully functional versions was too expensive. Designers often had to imagine interactions based only on static screens, which made testing and evaluating ideas difficult in the early stages of a project.

The lack of interactivity also complicated communication with clients. We could describe how a feature should behave, but without a realistic prototype, it was hard to imagine how it would feel in practice. Developers often received incomplete or ambiguous specifications and had to guess how transitions, animations, or interactions should work. This led to misunderstandings, rework, and unnecessary delays in implementation.

At Digital Solutions, we use Macaly exclusively for prototyping ideas, not for developing final production solutions. The actual implementation is always done through our own code. Macaly helps us explore, test, and clearly communicate ideas before development begins.

We use Macaly in two main ways:

1. 1.Creating interactive prototypes that allow us to refine navigation, information architecture, and interactions in a realistic environment. This lets us quickly verify whether user flows make sense, identify weak points, and align the team on a common understanding early in the project.
2. 2.Prototyping animations – from micro-interactions to transition and intro animations, like loading screens or animated splash screens. These details help us fine-tune the user experience and provide developers with precise specifications.

Our developers have also started using Macaly. They don't modify the prototypes themselves, but use the built-in AI agent to generate precise animation syntax, for example for Flutter. This gives them ready-to-use code snippets according to their conventions, which speeds up the transition from design to implementation and increases accuracy.

1. Audio Playback Prototyping

In one project, we needed to create a mobile app prototype focused on listening to and memorizing vocabulary. Macaly allowed us to simulate the entire user flow and create a functional audio player that could play, pause, and stop. Thanks to the built-in database, we could easily manage word sets, convert text to speech, and experiment with timing, voice, and controls.

2. Animation for Recipe Cooking Process

In a healthy lifestyle app, we designed an animation in Macaly that smoothly hides a step's detail after marking it as complete. Macaly helped us create a natural, fluid motion, and the built-in AI agent was able to generate a ready Flutter snippet that showed developers the exact timing and animation logic.

3. Realistic Photo Capture with Validation

For a logistics tool, we created an interactive prototype simulating the photo capture and validation process. Within a few hours, we had a complete clickable prototype that handled not only photo capture but also real image quality checking. Macaly automatically connected the necessary libraries and created a system that could analyze brightness and pixel colors as well as basic OCR text recognition.

Funny enough, we originally wanted to create just a "fake" validation for demonstration, but Macaly took it seriously and created actual functional validation :-)

Implementing Macaly brought noticeable speed and efficiency improvements. What used to take days of design and explanation, we now accomplish in a single creative session. We can immediately verify flows, interactions, and animations without switching between different tools or writing code. The entire process has become faster, clearer, and focused on the actual user experience.

Macaly also significantly strengthened collaboration between designers, developers, and clients. Our prototypes are now much closer to final products, which makes it easier for clients to understand the design and provides developers with clearer specifications. Macaly has become one of our most valuable tools, bringing speed, clarity, and enthusiasm to our projects.