Hey Jakub, this looks really cool! I'm cc'ing my friend Tom here, since he had a very similar idea some time ago, and I'm sure he's interested in learning more about your approach.
Cheers, Paul On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Jakub <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > A year ago, on a part time basis I started an open source user > interface prototyping project - www.fluidIA.org. Recently this turned > into a grad project. Seeing the powerful potential of jQuery, I've > relied on this Javascript library to build this browser based > application. The tool aims to empower interaction designers and > developers to quickly generate wireframes/prototypes, and more so, > allows for rapid refinement through object orientation and > inheritance. Support for state based objects has also been already > implemented. A working Firefox copy is running over at: > http://stage.fluidia.org > > For the fluidIA project, one of my upcoming tasks is also to explore > the ability to create a UI for jQuery's event handling capabilities. > In turn, this could result in something of a WYSIWYG editor for event > based interactions. However, for more powerful logic and data binding, > the environment will also support the ability to toggle fluidIA > objects and replace them with "real" code, should developers wish to > program the desired interactions. In a way then, these objects can act > as guiding or exploratory ideas which would then evolve to proper > code. Here are two very rough sketches of this: > http://fluidia.org/wp/?p=192 (toggle) > http://fluidia.org/wp/?p=94 (low-fi events) > > So why am I writing about all this here? Well, so far I've been a one > man army doing design, development and recently user testing. Just > thought to throw the project up here should there be any interested > developers / designers in participating. I'm really a generalist > (visual and interaction designer by education), and thought it would > be cool to work with some pro developers on this. > > 1. So far I've opened the source over at: > http://github.com/fluidia/fluidia/tree/master > > 2. I have also opened up the design process: > http://fluidia.org/wp/?category_name=sketches > where I am interested in contributions from others as well. (Am really > interested in running an open source + open design project and see how > designers could collaborate with developers.) > > 3. Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/fluidia > > Should any jQuery gurus be interested in working on this project, > please let me know. Would love to hear from you. > > Cheers, > Jakub Linowski > www.fluidia.org > www.linowski.ca > > > > -- Paul Bakaus UI Architect -- http://paulbakaus.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbakaus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" 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/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
