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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] myBalsamiq for KDE (for free)?
From:       Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze () user-prompt ! com>
Date:       2013-01-23 12:03:13
Message-ID: 2619437.BReNqBCb8l () sonne
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Balsamiq has IMHO the big advantage of being fast usable with the little 
disadvantage of rather static mockups with limited standard UI controls. There 
are a lot of other tool with more, or rather 'special', features. For instance 
parallel collaboration (Pidoco [1]), interactivity (ForeUI [2]) or open-source 
based (Pencil [3]).
By any means I agree with you that wireframes and mockups should not be build 
and discussed based on tools like QT Designer.

Heiko.

[1] https://pidoco.com/
[2] http://www.foreui.com/
[3] http://pencil.evolus.vn/

> From: Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar@autistici.org>
> To: KDE Usability <kde-usability@kde.org>
> Subject: [KDE Usability] myBalsamiq for KDE (for free)?
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> Hi usability-team,
> some of you may be familiar with Balsamiq Mockups [1], a very nice tool for
> creating GUI mockups (either completely static or with simulated interaction
> by linking between different mockups). It is proprietary, commercial
> software, but I don't know about a good Free alternative to it (yes, you
> can create UIs with Qt Designer, but that's way too much work for a simple
> idea sketch). And since its makers are "big fans of open-source software,
> and want to support serious open-source efforts as much as we can.", they
> offer it to open source projects for free [2].
> Especially "myBalsamiq" [3] may be interesting for us, as it is web-based
> and can thus be used to edit mockups collaboratively.
> I have used Balsamiq for years and found it to be very useful. I already
> have a free open-source contributor license for Balsamiq Desktop, but I
> think myBalsamiq would be much more useful for KDE as a whole, because with
> it people can easily edit mockups without having to install anything. If
> you think this is useful, either I or someone else could apply for a free
> instance (they call it "site") for KDE (you can get Balsamiq Desktop for
> free as an individual FOSS contributor, but myBalsamiq licenses are only
> granted for projects).
> What do you think?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.balsamiq.com
> [2] http://support.balsamiq.com/customer/portal/articles/105924#oss
> [3] http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/mybalsamiq
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