Google buys Pixate, updates Form to bring more Material Design to your apps

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by Sindy Cator on July 21, 2015 at 6:23 pm

Google has acquired Pixate, an app prototyping service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Pixate will join Google’s design team. As a result, Pixate Studio is now free, and the team says it is working at “dramatically reducing the cost of the Pixate cloud service.” Pixate is akin to Sketch, the popular OS X tool which has found favor with many app designers. The acquisition is also interesting for Google, which snapped up Relative Wave late last year. Relative Wave uses Visual Programming Language to help designers and developers prototype apps. The platform for creating those prototypes, Form,…