Balsamiq
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- njethwa0
Try the new http://www.mockuptiger.com
All web based and you can host it on your own server
- chalk0
I have tried time and time again to use wireframe programs, and I always come back to my two basics: (1) PSD/Fireworks and (2) Omnigraffle.
All these other newfangled wireframe tools are always missing something critical. Stop trying to be different, and be better would be my advice to them all.
- animatedgif0
Adobe Air? No thanks. Can't be expected to work in a glorified Flash application.
Omnigraffle, Keynote and Fireworks are all decent for it.
- citizen_h0
Use to use Omnigraffle for wireframes but Axure is very good as you can build a working wireframe protoype.
- ftravieso0
Thanks Utopian!
- orrinward0
I've been using Balsamiq for a while now and I am one of the ones that love it for app/web mocks.
I guess it's just a bit Marmite really.
- jadrian_uk0
what's the point of this if you can build mockups with PS?
- orrinward0
It's very quick for building them, and I basically use it as a way of preventing myself from overdesigning at the first step.
No typeface choices.
Not pixel perfect, but snap-fitting.
Big gallery of ready-built page components.I used to mock in AI/PS, but after giving Balsamiq a go (also used Gliffy and GoMockingbird for a while) I found I prototyped quicker.
I also hand things over the my boss if he wants to make suggestions and it's very simply drag and drop stuff.
It's a designers tool that forces the client to think about layout e.t.c and not get caught up in the gloss, and also it's a tool that your client/boss can easily use to give their input.
- orrinward0
At least with my boss and I, the days are gone where I would sit there with him over my shoulder asking me to move shit around and see where it would look best.
I now produce my best mocks, then he goes and does whatever he wants with it, shows his variations to me, and then we go with my original idea usually.
- ftravieso0
Thanks all of you for your input. I reaaaaaally appreciate it!!!