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by Dan Blaker
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Here are a couple options for Mac users:
Balsamiq Mockups is a novel UI sketching app that works in the browser
or as a downloadable Adobe Air application on your (Mac/Win/Linux)
desktop. It's "novel" because it uses a pen-sketched style for all its
pluggable UI elements. http://www.balsamiq.com/
iPlotz is another browser/Air app that uses a less sketchy style. http://iplotz.com/
AFAIK, neither app has built-in click tracking, so you'd have to use
something like crazyegg (http://crazyegg.com) to figure that stuff out.
I'd love to hear other people's suggestions about a Mac-compatible
tool with built-in click tracking etc.
DGB
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:15 PM, jonkern@... wrote:
> got anything for Mac users to try (without using parallels)?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alihosseinikhayat" <alihosseinikhayat@...>
> To: agile-usability@...
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 6:19:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> Eastern
> Subject: [agile-usability] Low-Fi Prototyping and Distributed WoZ
> Testing Tool
>
> Hi all,
> As some of you may remember Patrick Wilson (a member of Dr. Maurer's
> Agile SE Lab at the University of Calgary) designed a low-fidelity
> prototyping and distributed Wizard of Oz testing tool called
> ActiveStory. Following up on that work we have designed an updated
> tool called ActiveStory Enhanced with (hopefully) improved usability
> and flexibility and have also (hopefully) addressed some of the
> concerns some users had with the previous version (no undo, large
> eraser, etc).
> Using ActiveStory Enhanced a developer or designer (or anyone really)
> can design a quick pen-and-paper prototype, add some simple
> interactivity (transitions between pages when a hotspot area is
> clicked) and export the prototype to either an integrated web server
> or IIS (6.0 and above). Test participants can then navigate to the
> web address of the server and attempt to execute the designated task.
> Like the orginial ActiveStory, participants can leave comments and
> their mouse movements, hotspot clicks and time spent on each page are
> recorded.
> ActiveStory Enhanced supports using a tablet and/or a mouse.
> Designers can also import existing images and resize and move them.
> The new version of ActiveStory, (i.e. ActiveStory Enhanced), is
> available at CodePlex for download. Both the source and an installer
> are available.
> Your valued feedback and/or comments would be very much appreciated.
> Home:http://ase.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ActiveStoryEnhanced/Home
> CodePlex page: http://www.codeplex.com/ActiveStoryEnhanced
> Installer:
> http://www.codeplex.com/ActiveStoryEnhanced/Release/ProjectReleases.as
> px?ReleaseId=23628
>
>
>
Balsamiq Mockups is a novel UI sketching app that works in the browser
or as a downloadable Adobe Air application on your (Mac/Win/Linux)
desktop. It's "novel" because it uses a pen-sketched style for all its
pluggable UI elements. http://www.balsamiq.com/
iPlotz is another browser/Air app that uses a less sketchy style. http://iplotz.com/
AFAIK, neither app has built-in click tracking, so you'd have to use
something like crazyegg (http://crazyegg.com) to figure that stuff out.
I'd love to hear other people's suggestions about a Mac-compatible
tool with built-in click tracking etc.
DGB
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:15 PM, jonkern@... wrote:
> got anything for Mac users to try (without using parallels)?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alihosseinikhayat" <alihosseinikhayat@...>
> To: agile-usability@...
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 6:19:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
> Eastern
> Subject: [agile-usability] Low-Fi Prototyping and Distributed WoZ
> Testing Tool
>
> Hi all,
> As some of you may remember Patrick Wilson (a member of Dr. Maurer's
> Agile SE Lab at the University of Calgary) designed a low-fidelity
> prototyping and distributed Wizard of Oz testing tool called
> ActiveStory. Following up on that work we have designed an updated
> tool called ActiveStory Enhanced with (hopefully) improved usability
> and flexibility and have also (hopefully) addressed some of the
> concerns some users had with the previous version (no undo, large
> eraser, etc).
> Using ActiveStory Enhanced a developer or designer (or anyone really)
> can design a quick pen-and-paper prototype, add some simple
> interactivity (transitions between pages when a hotspot area is
> clicked) and export the prototype to either an integrated web server
> or IIS (6.0 and above). Test participants can then navigate to the
> web address of the server and attempt to execute the designated task.
> Like the orginial ActiveStory, participants can leave comments and
> their mouse movements, hotspot clicks and time spent on each page are
> recorded.
> ActiveStory Enhanced supports using a tablet and/or a mouse.
> Designers can also import existing images and resize and move them.
> The new version of ActiveStory, (i.e. ActiveStory Enhanced), is
> available at CodePlex for download. Both the source and an installer
> are available.
> Your valued feedback and/or comments would be very much appreciated.
> Home:http://ase.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ActiveStoryEnhanced/Home
> CodePlex page: http://www.codeplex.com/ActiveStoryEnhanced
> Installer:
> http://www.codeplex.com/ActiveStoryEnhanced/Release/ProjectReleases.as
> px?ReleaseId=23628
>
>
>
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