Bind For Mac

Bind  is a native OS X app that proposes a clean space where you can experiment with developing user interfaces for your software projects. The utility provides support for using the GSS language, but can also incorporates the emmet plug-ins for CSS and HTML.

Bind enables you to create a structure for your app’s interface with the help of the GSS programming language, which allows you to define layouts by making use of constraints.

Bind is not focused on helping you develop your app’s design, but simply provides a space where you can rearrange all the elements until you find a layout that works best. By using the GSS language, you get to define various elements, add location and size constraints, add images and divisions, and so on.

Within the app’s main window, you can view the layout code expressed in GSS, HTML, and CSS syntax, and you can preview your adjustments in real time. You can see the size of the currently selected object, and define constraints.

The Bind user interface follows the OS X Human Interface Guidelines and has a rather stylish design. Since it is well organized, finding your way around should be straightforward. However, keep in mind that you have to learn more about the GridStyleSheets language in order to be able to juggle with the layout design.

Worth mentioning is that, even though you can toggle the visibility of the source code and modifiers panels, you cannot resize them, which might be fairly frustrating, especially when working on larger layouts.

To conclude, if you want to experiment with the structure of your new apps, Bind proposes a well-organized space where you can use the GCC language to quickly define new layouts.