What are good Open Source / Free software packages that let you design GUIs quickly, like "on a napkin" style, but also give a bit of polish that you could throw into a slide deck? Preference would be to use some clipart/objects ala Visio, but not required. NOT: Visio PowerPoint KeyNote OmniGraffe Balsamiq (althought it's worth the m...
I am searching for something like http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups . I like the program and would buy it if it were 20 bucks a licence. Do you guys know something in the range from 0 to 20 bucks which can do what this thing can? Give me some more answers there is no real answer here and I don't want to waste 100 rep points! ...
I received a WSDL file for a web service interface that our system should call somewhere in the future. Until then, I'd like to setup a dummy/mockup web service that does nothing else than to log the web service invocations and return dummy data. What I've done so far is to generate Java objects from the WSDL file. What's the fastest...
I want to mockup a GUI system so that I can figure out how best to represent what I need. Normally, I would design a GUI in something like glade and then write a quick mockup in Python which implements only the GUI logic (ie, making menus/sub windows etc appear) and not business logic. Are there any tools which automate this? I mean, ...
I am looking for a program to make mockup screenshots with. I first found out I could do it with Visual Basic (uglier names I have yet to hear a programming language being called) from joelonsoftware.com. I don't want to start learning VB now, especially since I am still in the process of learning Java. I then found mockupscreens.com, wi...
Design stencils and wireframes are cool! It would be terribly time consuming to mockup applications without them. Which are your favorites and where can they be viewed/downloaded? ...
I'm looking for a web app that would allow me to quickly sketch some prototype screens for a potential web app for users of this application. Is there a preferred tool for this kind of thing? Or, if not a web app, is there offline software for doing this? Should I just use something like Illustrator/Fireworks? ...
I needs a mac compatible UML diagramming application, and on the cheap is better. I've tried Gliffy.com as an online application, but I need something for offline use as well. Any suggestions would be great. ...
I've been using Balsamiq to create mockups. I'm using the trial version, so I have all screens in one mockup instead of multiple files. I want to send an export of these mockups to my team so they can comment on them. They need to be able to easily add arrows, callouts, text, etc. I know you can do some of that in Balsamiq, but it i...
In sketching (or mockup) tools such as Balsamiq and WireframeSketcher Comic Sans is used to give that "sketchy", hand drawn look. My only problem is, I'm so tired of that font. Any suggestions for alternatives? Edit: WireframeSketcher does not default to the Comic Sans font, but it's the one used to show an example of a "sketchy" look....
I am about to embark on developing a mobile application for both the iPhone and the Android based phone. I have most of my gui mock ups written down on a white board and some in my head. I need to put them down on paper so I can relay my designs to others in my team. I was wondering what the best on-line gui mockup tool I could use? ...
How do you prototype your software UI? What's your experience? Could you please share with me? Thanks in advance! ...
Hello guys, Im not too great at CSS but hopefully someone on here can help. I have the following mockup. (i have stripped out my content to make it easy to view) <body> <div id="container"> <div id="header"></div> <div id="body"> <div id="navBar"></div> <div id="mainContent"></div> </div> <d...
Tools which can be used to quickly show a mockup/Prototype or a wireframe of either a web-application, Softwares software/webscript etc. I need free tools, or even webscripts to support mockup will be great ...
We're beginning to design a new product, and our UI guy is knocking out screenshots like there's no tomorrow. Our boss, though, wants to be able to actually interact with the site as it would look with various features and skins. I can whip up simple features pretty quickly with Groovy on Grails (or any of a dozen other options), but w...
So I endeavor to spend most of time on the app server side of things but time to time I need to get my hands dirty and generate markup/css/js from a wireframe or mockup. As far as tools go, Ive found browsershots and Litmus app helpful and of course, vm's as well for checking things out live in ie-{6,7,8}. Otherwise I do the heavy liftin...
One of my clients have asked me to give UI mockups of all pages of my web application... I found Balsamiq which seems to be a good one... Any other tools.... What would you use for drawing UI mockups? ...
need to do a mockup for a web app quickly, anyone can recommend some good tool ? Thanks ...
I know that Jquery has a .hover function, but I can't seem to figure out how to implement it in Balsamiq Mockups. Here is what I am trying to do: I am creating a mockup for hulu, called Bulu and I am trying to have the channels menu slide down when I hover over the channels button, here is the code I have buluchannels ; $("#buluchanne...
I have a presentation due in about three hours and rather than handing in something I drew in pencil, I'd rather turn in something nicer to the client. Is there something out there that lets me pick and drag common controls to create mockups? ...