Sounds interesting. Personally, I need such an app. Calum, thanks for the links! :) Regards, Allan https://launchpad.net/~wersdaluv http://twitter.com/AllanCaeg
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Usability mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Usability digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...] > (Guy Lunardi) > 2. Re: [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...] > (Calum Benson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:10:33 -0600 > From: "Guy Lunardi" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>,"Guy Lunardi" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Usability] [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License > Recipients...] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Bonjour, > > What do you think of this idea? I really like their software and I > think that even if only a few projects take advantage of making mockups > with it, it's a great story for them to enable the GNOME project. > > Please let Stormy or I know what you think :-). > > Also, I understand of course that YOU do not need such a tool. Inkscape and > the likes can do the same. The idea is for everyone else (people like > myself) to generate mockups to share their ideas. > > > Best, > -Guy > > > > -----Embedded Message----- > From: "Guy Lunardi" <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun Oct 11 08:23:37 2009 > Subject: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients... > All, > > While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME technologies, > it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for projects. > > I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking > them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would be > useful? > http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups > > Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the projects > we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early > development cycles because of it. > > It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on > user experience. We could for example use this software as part of some > of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs). > > Please let me know what you think. > > Best regards, > -Guy > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > > -----End of Embedded Message----- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:04:36 +0100 > From: Calum Benson <[email protected]> > To: Guy Lunardi <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License > Recipients...] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > > On 15 Oct 2009, at 17:10, Guy Lunardi wrote: > > > Also, I understand of course that YOU do not need such a tool. > > Inkscape and the likes can do the same. The idea is for everyone > > else (people like myself) to generate mockups to share their ideas. > > There's actually a whole bunch of tools out there for doing this sort > of thing now... ForeUI (Java) and FlairBuilder (AIR) are another > couple of good cross-platform ones: > > <http://www.foreui.com/> > <http://www.flairbuilder.com/> > > CogTool from Carnegie Mellon is a particularly interesting one -- it's > free and open source, and it automatically evaluates your prototypes > using a predictive human performance model. But that, as you might > expect, does make it a bit harder to learn and use: > > <http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/> > > (Despite apparently just being a Java + clisp app, they say it doesn't > run on Linux and there are no plans to make it do so -- maybe that > would be an interesting project for somebody here?) > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > > > > -----Embedded Message----- > > From: "Guy Lunardi" <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sun Oct 11 08:23:37 2009 > > Subject: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients... > > All, > > > > While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME > > technologies, > > it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for > > projects. > > > > I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking > > them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would > > be > > useful? > > http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups > > > > Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the > > projects > > we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early > > development cycles because of it. > > > > It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on > > user experience. We could for example use this software as part of > > some > > of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs). > > > > Please let me know what you think. > > > > Best regards, > > -Guy > > > > > > -- > > marketing-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > > > > > -----End of Embedded Message----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Usability mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Sun Microsystems Ireland > mailto:[email protected] OpenSolaris Desktop Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > > End of Usability Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13 > ***************************************** >
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