No offense, but your app doesn't seem to do anything Powerpoint doesn't do? And the Olive XP style for screenshots? A bit Fugly. It's all arrows.
What sets this app apart? What makes it remarkable? No offence taken! Although you can use PowerPoint to design UIs, and I've seen it done, it's an inappropriate tool for the job. That's not surprising as it was designed for an entirely different purpose. If you create your own set of graphical UI widgets, you could use them in a PowerPoint slide and even have clicks on items take you to specific slides to simulate workflow but that's about as far as it goes. Even Visio, with a set of UI stencils, is not intended for interactive user interface design so it's limited and inadequate for that purpose even though it's used a lot in the absense of a more suitable tool. Not only does our app provide a good set of UI elements but it lets you connect pages, screens and panels together in more ways than just jumping between them. Parts of a design can be precisely positioned and components (masters) can vbe reused throughout a project. Of course, GUI Design Studio doesn't replace your graphics design tool. If you're creating an application (Web or desktop) that needs fancy graphics then you'll still want to use Photoshop, AI or some other specialised tool for that. But then you can bring those images into GUI Design Studio to lay them out, add other UI elements, overlay text and link everything together to turn your designs into an interactive prototype. You can even use whiteboard photos or scanned paper sketches and make those interactive if you like. The examples and some of the screenshots definitely need updating. The choice of Olive XP was fairly arbitrary. It makes a change from Blue and Vista wasn't released when most of these shots were taken. We'll be putting up more screenshots and examples as soon as we get the chance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42372 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
