Balsamiq + Napkee == that all you need for UI drafting alternative: http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx
One of the disadvantage of Balsamiq is the slowness when you have heavy/many mockups opened at once. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Marco Faustinelli < [email protected]> wrote: > Jan, > > I am afraid that going from discarding Vaadin because of its un- > ability to manage 100k points on the server to ending up excited about > a sketching tool that produces PDF, JPG or proprietary XML does not > testify of a clear decision-making path :-) > > Let's start from the assumption that there is a customer who must be > shown a GUI to accept or reject. If the GUI must be more than a plain > collection of form controls (like that shown in > http://code.google.com/javadevtools/wbpro/userinterface/design_view.html) > my opinion is that the customer will be able to decide only in front > of some rich graphics made with whatever drawing tool. But the real > implementation job starts afterwards. From scratch. > > I'd love to see a generic progression GUI sketching --> GUI design --> > GUI implementation building up on a shared repository of code and > leading to a truly complex application, but I haven't yet seen it. And > I believe I never will: besides the huge technical complexity of the > final product, there are many different actors (customers, graphic > designers, programmers...) with different mindsets and skills, used to > different applications to express their views and needs about the > final product. > > Iterations with the customer are welcome; the sooner he has a working > prototype to play with, the better it is; but every not-trivial change > to the GUI will require again the preparation of rich graphics for the > customer to approve, and again some implementation work will start > from scratch. > > Shortening the lines between graphic designers and developers: that's > where companies make or lose money. Shortening those lines means to me > spreading HTML+CSS knowledge throughout the staff rather than looking > for the silver bullet that draws and compiles to JS fastest. My 5c. > > Have a nice day, > Marco > > > On Nov 3, 9:43 am, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Found Balsamiq - that looks good indeed. Something I can quickly throw a > > sketch together without drawing every line and shadow. > > > > AND works on Linux. ;-) > > > > Thanks !!!! :-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- respectfully gediminas siutilas linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/in/gadas home@: http://gadas.eu mobile # : +(370) 6 8262318 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
