[Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...]

[Guy Lunardi]

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



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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


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[Calum Benson]

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.

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> From: "Guy Lunardi" <glunardi@...> <GLunardi@...>
> To:  <marketing-list@...>
> Sent: Sun Oct 11 08:23:37 2009
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> 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
>
>
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[Martin Albisetti]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Guy Lunardi <GLunardi@...> wrote:
> 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.

We've been using it extensively in Canonical, mainly for the web-based
projects we have, but some desktop as well.
I can't speak for my other team members, but it's been a fantastic
tool for me, a huge time saver and the software limits you to
wireframes so designers can still have enough freedom to do their
worst.

It's not open source, it's not free (they do give away free licenses
to open source folks), but it's a fantastic tool.


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