Bruce Elgort

A fantastic prototyping application
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
I just heard about the Balsamiq Mockups application on the net@night podcast. This looks like a great prototyping application for developers and business people. After I test use it a bit I plan to blog some more about it. You can simply click on the "Try it now" link and literally use it over the web. It appears to be an Adobe Air application.

Check out this short video:



 
Comments

Comment posted by Chris Blatnick11/23/2008 05:32:42 PM
Homepage: http://interfacematters.com


Well...it's obvious to me now that you don't read Interface Matters.

http://interfacematters.com/2008/11/balsamiq-mockupsa-very-cool-tool-for.html

Please excuse me while I go cry...


Comment posted by Bruce11/23/2008 06:21:58 PM


@Chris,

Sorry about that. I hadn't seen that post. I hope your done crying


Comment posted by Chris Blatnick11/24/2008 09:26:12 AM
Homepage: http://interfacematters.com


Not yet...


Comment posted by Frank Paolino11/24/2008 04:04:29 PM
Homepage: http://blog.maysoft.org/


I already downloaded it and tried it. It is an amazing tool, and I think I could really use it for new UI design. Thanks!


Comment posted by Keil Wilson11/25/2008 02:46:38 PM


Bruce, I tapped into this after reading about it on Chris' blog. It's totally cool. I wish I had as much faith in the low fidelity prototype as Chris. Actually, I can imagine having a Tablet PC would make things a little easier. There are a couple of things that I don't like about it. No keyboard copy and paste functions is kind of irritating. And the right click brings up an Adobe menu instead of contextual commands for the object you click on. This is a really nice tool, however. I'm waiting for my next new project to introduce this to my colleagues.


Comment posted by Peldi Guilizzoni12/12/2008 01:41:17 AM
Homepage: http://www.balsamiq.com


Bruce, thanks so much for the review!

@Keil, some keyboard shortcuts are not available in the plugin version because of Flash Player limitations but they are fully supported on the Desktop version. Here's a list of the current keyboard shortcuts I support: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/help/#shortcuts

Peldi


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