http://www.philonoist.net (noun, Rare.) A lover of learning. Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:38:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.philonoist.net/2008/11/17/boy-howdy-balsamiq-is-cool/ http://www.philonoist.net/2008/11/17/boy-howdy-balsamiq-is-cool/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:49:11 +0000 Adam http://www.philonoist.net/2008/11/17/boy-howdy-balsamiq-is-cool/ Before I switched over to full time software development,  I used to write functional specs for some of the applications at ATG. The most frustrating aspect of this wasn’t the text itself, since describing what happens when you click a button is pretty sweet, but being blocked waiting for the UI designer to update the wireframe models. He and I used Microsoft Visio, a bulky, awkward product on a good day, and we lost quite a few days to his creating prototypes. (It didn’t help that he was three time zones away.)

With balsamiq mockups, I think we could have definitely cut down on that; it looks impossibly spiffy and fast. It’s been a while since I’ve been on that side of things, so I’d be curious to see if any HFIDers out there have used this.  is it as amazing as it looks?

Check out the YouTube video for jaw-dropping prototypin’.

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