On 15 Oct 2009, at 17:10, Guy Lunardi wrote:
Also, I understand of course that YOU do not need such a tool.
Inkscape and the likes can do the same. The idea is for everyone
else (people like myself) to generate mockups to share their ideas.
There's actually a whole bunch of tools out there for doing this sort
of thing now... ForeUI (Java) and FlairBuilder (AIR) are another
couple of good cross-platform ones:
<http://www.foreui.com/>
<http://www.flairbuilder.com/>
CogTool from Carnegie Mellon is a particularly interesting one -- it's
free and open source, and it automatically evaluates your prototypes
using a predictive human performance model. But that, as you might
expect, does make it a bit harder to learn and use:
<http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/>
(Despite apparently just being a Java + clisp app, they say it doesn't
run on Linux and there are no plans to make it do so -- maybe that
would be an interesting project for somebody here?)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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All,
While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME
technologies,
it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for
projects.
I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking
them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would
be
useful?
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the
projects
we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early
development cycles because of it.
It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on
user experience. We could for example use this software as part of
some
of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs).
Please let me know what you think.
Best regards,
-Guy
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