Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-18 Thread Calum Benson
On 18 Jan 2010, at 21:47, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:33 +, Calum Benson wrote: >> >> We could (and probably should) do that. Although personally, when I >> get to this level of prototyping fidelity, I like to add a little >> basic interaction as well, which dedicated pro

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-18 Thread Máirín Duffy
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:33 +, Calum Benson wrote: > On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:56, Hiran Venugopalan wrote: > > > 2010/1/17 Máirín Duffy > >> > >> What if we built a library of sketchy widgets as an Inkscape SVG and made > >> it widely available? (maybe available in the app itself the way the >

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-18 Thread Calum Benson
On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:56, Hiran Venugopalan wrote: > 2010/1/17 Máirín Duffy >> >> What if we built a library of sketchy widgets as an Inkscape SVG and made >> it widely available? (maybe available in the app itself the way the >> SVG-based help files open from the help menu?) >> >> > Thats wh

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-18 Thread Hiran Venugopalan
2010/1/17 Máirín Duffy > > What if we built a library of sketchy widgets as an Inkscape SVG and made > it widely available? (maybe available in the app itself the way the > SVG-based help files open from the help menu?) > > Thats what I do now, keep all inside an image and use when I need it, Why

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-18 Thread Lasse Havelund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've had a chance to play with Pencil for a bit now, and it seems like a great prototyping application. Definitely a great idea. - -- ..-. Lasse Havelund /( o \Official Ubuntu Member '| __ ` ||lhavel...@ubuntu.com ||| ||| -'

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-17 Thread Allan Caeg
Sounds good. That's kind of like how Balsamiq works 2010/1/17 Máirín Duffy > Andreas Nilsson wrote: > >> To make sure the new developers will have a hard time in case the >> original developer of the mockups get hit by a bus? :) >> Personally, I tend to stick to pen and paper for my mockups. >>

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-16 Thread Máirín Duffy
Andreas Nilsson wrote: To make sure the new developers will have a hard time in case the original developer of the mockups get hit by a bus? :) Personally, I tend to stick to pen and paper for my mockups. Jokes aside, if anyone needs help with graphics for sketch-alike widgets to stick on a

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-16 Thread Andreas Nilsson
To make sure the new developers will have a hard time in case the original developer of the mockups get hit by a bus? :) Personally, I tend to stick to pen and paper for my mockups. Jokes aside, if anyone needs help with graphics for sketch-alike widgets to stick on a canvas, I'm more than hap

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-16 Thread Allan Caeg
Yep. That's how I got my license. :) a native one (or at least something as integrated as XUL) would be great though. ;) Allan On Jan 17, 2010, at 6:15 AM, Natan Yellin wrote: Fwiw, Balsamiq gives out free licenses to open source projects. Natan On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Allan Caeg

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-16 Thread Natan Yellin
Fwiw, Balsamiq gives out free licenses to open source projects. Natan On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Allan Caeg wrote: > +1 Who's in? ;) > > I have the same sentiments. Pencil is nice, but not as polished as > Balsamiq. I use Balsamiq al the time (at work and play). A native version > would b

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-15 Thread Allan Caeg
+1 Who's in? ;) I have the same sentiments. Pencil is nice, but not as polished as Balsamiq. I use Balsamiq al the time (at work and play). A native version would be great because Adobe Air isn't the smoothest thing on Linux. One of the things that I'm not comfortable with is the lack of ctrl+c on

Re: [Usability] [Ayatana] Sketching and Prototyping with a Firefox Addon

2010-01-15 Thread David Siegel
I've tried Pencil and had very little luck. While it's not open source, I recommend Balsamiq Mockups (an AIR app). We should build a native, free clone of it :) David On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:11 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > Hello All, > > I just discovered the Pencil project http://evolus.vn/Penc