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	<title>Comments on: Review: Balsamiq Mockups</title>
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		<title>By: Efraim</title>
		<link>http://www.gregphoto.net/index.php/2009/04/22/review-balsamiq-mockups/comment-page-1/#comment-270604</link>
		<dc:creator>Efraim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love Balsamiq mockups! Use it almost weekly!
However, software UI tools don&#039;t seem to solve the &#039;first ideas&#039; or &#039;napkin drawings&#039;. For some reason, I can&#039;t bring in software until the idea is a little more clear, since all UI software (incl. Balsamiq) only allow pre-set controls. 

To solve the early stages, I use:
http://www.MockupMagnets.com
Very fun magnetic UI widgets for prototyping on a whiteboard. You should try them!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love Balsamiq mockups! Use it almost weekly!<br />
However, software UI tools don&#8217;t seem to solve the &#8216;first ideas&#8217; or &#8216;napkin drawings&#8217;. For some reason, I can&#8217;t bring in software until the idea is a little more clear, since all UI software (incl. Balsamiq) only allow pre-set controls. </p>
<p>To solve the early stages, I use:<br />
<a href="http://www.MockupMagnets.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.MockupMagnets.com</a><br />
Very fun magnetic UI widgets for prototyping on a whiteboard. You should try them!</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Steele</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Steele</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 13:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thought you might be interested in the latest version of our GUI design tool: GUI Design Studio (http://www.carettasoftware.com/press/release-2009-05.html). We&#039;ve added lots of new features which professional application and web designers are finding really useful, particularly in an agile development environment. You can try it out on a 30 day free trial from the download page: http://www.carettasoftware.com/downloads.html 

If you would like to do a review, just let us know, we would be happy to help.

Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thought you might be interested in the latest version of our GUI design tool: GUI Design Studio (<a href="http://www.carettasoftware.com/press/release-2009-05.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.carettasoftware.com/press/release-2009-05.html</a>). We&#8217;ve added lots of new features which professional application and web designers are finding really useful, particularly in an agile development environment. You can try it out on a 30 day free trial from the download page: <a href="http://www.carettasoftware.com/downloads.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.carettasoftware.com/downloads.html</a> </p>
<p>If you would like to do a review, just let us know, we would be happy to help.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Peldi Guilizzoni</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peldi Guilizzoni</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Greg, Peldi here from Balsamiq. First of all, thank you SO MUCH for the review. Like you said Mockups is in &quot;constant improvement mode&quot; and feedback like yours is just what I need to make it better. Let me address some of your concerns:

* After ‘Quick Add’ clicking f2 doesn’t go into edit mode - this is intentional, so that you can &quot;rapid-fire&quot; add controls as you think of them, like I do in my video demo here: http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups - to edit the control you just added you can hit ESC and then F2...edit, hit ENTER or CTRL+ENTER and hit / or + to go back to Quick Add, all without using the mouse. ;)

* Dragging items from the strip doesn’t show the guides - yup, that&#039;s already on the to-do list. Unfortunately because of the way the code is written this is not an easy feature to add, but we&#039;ll figure it out.

* It would be nice if there were a better way to select a set of items without moving the item beneath it. - SHIFT+click and CTRL+click don&#039;t work for you? I do like the idea of a modifier so that clicking and dragging won&#039;t make the control that&#039;s under the mouse steal the focus, let me look into that, this is a great idea.

 * highlight locked items on right-click menu hover...wow, cool idea. Not sure how easy it is to implement, but I&#039;ll add it to my TODO. 

* smaller fonts in tree - great catch and easy to do, I&#039;ll add that soon.

* Ability to click through from one mockup to another to create workflow - you can do that now in 1.6! http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?cat=14 - (no HTML generation at the moment)

* Ability to regroup after ungrouping items - what I want to do here is let you double-click on a group to &quot;enter it&quot; and edit its contents.

* Radio and Check Box controls should allow adding multiple at once similar to Dropdown - this is a BRILLIANT idea, we&#039;ll add it right away.

* It would be nice to have right-click context menus for some operations like grouping or ungrouping - yup, already on the list.

* Layers - hmm, I&#039;d like to avoid this if at all possible...this is not Photoshop! :) Once we get the selection modifier in I hope you won&#039;t feel the need for this any more.

* Ability to add custom widgets - often requested feature, on the TODO. The only tricky part is how to manage those (adding / editing / deleting) in an easy way. Also, once you have a widget you&#039;ll probably want to create a propery inspector for it...slippery slope.

* Favorites bar in addition to the current ‘All’, ‘Big’, ‘Buttons’ - fairly easy to do, I&#039;ll add that.

Once again, thank you SO much for the feedback and the great ideas, I hope to implement them all and make Mockups that much more useful to you and others!

Peldi</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Greg, Peldi here from Balsamiq. First of all, thank you SO MUCH for the review. Like you said Mockups is in &#8220;constant improvement mode&#8221; and feedback like yours is just what I need to make it better. Let me address some of your concerns:</p>
<p>* After ‘Quick Add’ clicking f2 doesn’t go into edit mode &#8211; this is intentional, so that you can &#8220;rapid-fire&#8221; add controls as you think of them, like I do in my video demo here: <a href="http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups" rel="nofollow">http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups</a> &#8211; to edit the control you just added you can hit ESC and then F2&#8230;edit, hit ENTER or CTRL+ENTER and hit / or + to go back to Quick Add, all without using the mouse. <img src='http://www.gregphoto.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>* Dragging items from the strip doesn’t show the guides &#8211; yup, that&#8217;s already on the to-do list. Unfortunately because of the way the code is written this is not an easy feature to add, but we&#8217;ll figure it out.</p>
<p>* It would be nice if there were a better way to select a set of items without moving the item beneath it. &#8211; SHIFT+click and CTRL+click don&#8217;t work for you? I do like the idea of a modifier so that clicking and dragging won&#8217;t make the control that&#8217;s under the mouse steal the focus, let me look into that, this is a great idea.</p>
<p> * highlight locked items on right-click menu hover&#8230;wow, cool idea. Not sure how easy it is to implement, but I&#8217;ll add it to my TODO. </p>
<p>* smaller fonts in tree &#8211; great catch and easy to do, I&#8217;ll add that soon.</p>
<p>* Ability to click through from one mockup to another to create workflow &#8211; you can do that now in 1.6! <a href="http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?cat=14" rel="nofollow">http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?cat=14</a> &#8211; (no HTML generation at the moment)</p>
<p>* Ability to regroup after ungrouping items &#8211; what I want to do here is let you double-click on a group to &#8220;enter it&#8221; and edit its contents.</p>
<p>* Radio and Check Box controls should allow adding multiple at once similar to Dropdown &#8211; this is a BRILLIANT idea, we&#8217;ll add it right away.</p>
<p>* It would be nice to have right-click context menus for some operations like grouping or ungrouping &#8211; yup, already on the list.</p>
<p>* Layers &#8211; hmm, I&#8217;d like to avoid this if at all possible&#8230;this is not Photoshop! <img src='http://www.gregphoto.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Once we get the selection modifier in I hope you won&#8217;t feel the need for this any more.</p>
<p>* Ability to add custom widgets &#8211; often requested feature, on the TODO. The only tricky part is how to manage those (adding / editing / deleting) in an easy way. Also, once you have a widget you&#8217;ll probably want to create a propery inspector for it&#8230;slippery slope.</p>
<p>* Favorites bar in addition to the current ‘All’, ‘Big’, ‘Buttons’ &#8211; fairly easy to do, I&#8217;ll add that.</p>
<p>Once again, thank you SO much for the feedback and the great ideas, I hope to implement them all and make Mockups that much more useful to you and others!</p>
<p>Peldi</p>
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