andre.salazar3/blog mentioned this tool in Fantastic AIR tool for anyone who does UI mockups... post a couple of weeks ago, and those few lines was enough for me to go and get the tool right away. I have worked with it on several occations already, and all I can say is that this tool is a must for everyone working with UIs.
I have even used it a couple of times at customer's sites, when discussing their form design. Because the tool is so easy to use, and everything is drag and drop, I can create an UI mockup within a couple of minutes, which lets me explore different designs with the customer directly.
I am a person, who still likes to hand-draw my mockups on paper first, so the fact that the controllers in this app all have a hand-drawn look to them, give these mockups the same feeling to them as if they were drawn on paper.
The user interface is intuitive and easy to use.
There is a library of more than 50 controls and 70 icons to choose from, in eight different categories. (Big, Buttons, Common, Containers, Layout, Markup, Media and Text)
When you resize the controls, it will always tell you it's current size. Great when you have to design for a specific format. Furthermore every element has a property inspector (toolbox), with which you can edit it's properties. Size, layer, group, colour, state, icon, font-size, borders, alignment, just to mention a few properties, can be changed.
The mockups can be saved as .bmml files, exported as .png or even as an .xml file.
I use the desktop AIR app, but there is also a version, which is integrated into Confluence, JIRA or Twiki.
Take a look at this video, if you would like to see an example of what this app can do for you:
You can find more sample mockups here.
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