What software was used to do these wireframes

Question

Anyone knows a Linux (or crossplatform) software that you can use to design wireframes like the ones on this page - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Software%20list%20view . That fuzzy style is great.

I only know a Mac program that easily allows you to do this but since in the above page is made by Linux users for Linux users there's a chance an open source program was used :)

Answer 1

It's not Balsamiq Mockups, but Balsamiq will get a similiar result and I know it's a great product: http://www.balsamiq.com/

It costs $79 and it's worth every penny. I use it all the time.

They also give out free licenses if you have a blog and are willing to post a review.

Answer 2

I don't know what app was used for that page, but it looks similar to Balsamiq. It's not free, but it's pretty cheap.

Answer 3

To summarise Schumann et al. 1996, "Assessing the effect of non-photorealistic rendered images in CAD":

Use a plotter and don't tighten the pen :)

Answer 4

That doesn't look like Balsamiq to me. I'm not sure what that is but here are some others. Most wireframing tools run on Linux since most are either online tools (usually requiring Flash) or are written with AIR (e.g. Balsamiq) or Java.

HotGloo http://www.hotgloo.com/ http://getsatisfaction.com/hotgloo $7/m for 1 project, 5 users; Flash Support collaboration. No semantic (XML) export.

Mockflow http://www.mockflow.com/ "Design, collaborate (in real-time) user interface mockups for your software and websites." AIR, but now developing for iPad so they will have two different products to dev and support? No community support or contact info (just a form) Sitemaps

Mockingbird http://gomockingbird.com/ Mockingbird is newish and HTML5 based; $9/month for 2 projects with many users. "create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application." No annotations, no XML export.

Lumzy Lumzy is a free, online Mockup and Prototype creation tool http://www.lumzy.com/ No support site, no company info Flash

Quplo http://quplo.com/ Create mockups using HTML; Very new.

ForeUI; advanced mockups for websites & desktop + flowcharts http://www.foreui.com/ $99; java app;

WireframeSketcher http://wireframesketcher.com/ Very much an Eclipse plug-in.

Denim is free but is "better for use with a tablet" http://dub.washington.edu:2007/denim/

Pencil http://pencil.evolus.vn/ Mozilla Based, open source, free. Native XML format.