Hello, A year ago, on a part time basis I started an open source user interface prototyping project - www.fluidIA.org. Recently this turned into a grad project. Seeing the powerful potential of jQuery, I've relied on this Javascript library to build this browser based application. The tool aims to empower interaction designers and developers to quickly generate wireframes/prototypes, and more so, allows for rapid refinement through object orientation and inheritance. Support for state based objects has also been already implemented. A working Firefox copy is running over at: http://stage.fluidia.org
For the fluidIA project, one of my upcoming tasks is also to explore the ability to create a UI for jQuery's event handling capabilities. In turn, this could result in something of a WYSIWYG editor for event based interactions. However, for more powerful logic and data binding, the environment will also support the ability to toggle fluidIA objects and replace them with "real" code, should developers wish to program the desired interactions. In a way then, these objects can act as guiding or exploratory ideas which would then evolve to proper code. Here are two very rough sketches of this: http://fluidia.org/wp/?p=192 (toggle) http://fluidia.org/wp/?p=94 (low-fi events) So why am I writing about all this here? Well, so far I've been a one man army doing design, development and recently user testing. Just thought to throw the project up here should there be any interested developers / designers in participating. I'm really a generalist (visual and interaction designer by education), and thought it would be cool to work with some pro developers on this. 1. So far I've opened the source over at: http://github.com/fluidia/fluidia/tree/master 2. I have also opened up the design process: http://fluidia.org/wp/?category_name=sketches where I am interested in contributions from others as well. (Am really interested in running an open source + open design project and see how designers could collaborate with developers.) 3. Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/fluidia Should any jQuery gurus be interested in working on this project, please let me know. Would love to hear from you. Cheers, Jakub Linowski www.fluidia.org www.linowski.ca ps. I cross posted this from the jquery dev list.
