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by jrwoodruff 4783 days ago
I've only spent a few minutes with this, but so far it looks very promising.

I work in an enterprise envrionment where we have varying levels of design/programming skill. One of our needs is for our designers or business analysts to be able to mockup screens without explicity writing HTML but in a way where nothing gets lost in translation to developers. We've been looking at Axure, but I've generally found it to be disappointing, if not plain annoying.

This looks much better.

Likes:

- It's a native application. We're not always connected when we need to prototype a screen, and, frankly we somehow haven't figured out the whole wi-fi/security balance thing. Native is great.

- I love that it uses bootstrap and provides a few template page options.

- Responsive options, proper element positioning options... lovely

Wants/questions:

- Customizable templates? Is it possible to alter or add to the default styles and template options? I.e. an in-house modified bootstrap or bootstrap-like option? Basically a way for the design lead to create custom elements and styles for use by the rest of the team.

- Ability to add new elements in snippets

- Maybe some basic logic, just enough to allow a simulation-type scenario. Although I would rather go without this than have the option over-complicate the interface.

I apologize if some of the wants are already possible; regardless I am definetly a customer.

3 comments

Might want to look at Balsamiq Mockups:

http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups

It's easy enough for non-techies to use, can be installed locally, and can have new elements added via snippets.

It doesn't generate HTML, but in my experience developers don't want to get HTML; they just want to see what the non-techie wants done and then they'd prefer to write the code themselves. Balsamiq works great in that scenario.

Yup, we've been using Balsamiq, it's fantastic for a lot of things but there are times when a higher-fidelity tool is needed.

On top of this, we are also creating a standardized look and toolset for all of our apps - something sort of like Bootstrap - so there are many situations where it would be great to be able to just assemble the UI pieces that we've already defined and say 'what do you think of this?' or even run through some informal usabiltiy testing.

Side note: I think Balsamiq is the main reason I was so disappointed in Axure. Balsamiq is so efficient and so good at what it does, and Axure... well, you kind of wonder if anyone at Axure actually uses Axure.

Thank you for your feedback. We are very happy of it. About your questions: Options to add new templates and snippets is on the way. Adding more complicated logic (axure-like) at the moment is beyond our purpose.

In any case we are very open to any new idea. If you are interested, you can follow developments at https://trello.com/board/pingendo-development-board/506057b0...

Thank you!

I'd agree with all of this, really enjoying using it!

This might be because it's still in beta but having the app start automatically after install would be good too.