![]() Before you know it, you’ve cut months of back and forth from your schedule without spending a dime on You can quickly incorporate their feedback and create new iterations quickly for them to retest. Your clients need a clear picture, so give them something to touch.Ĭreate a brief and you can hand your designs to people in a way they can play with. MartianCraft’s clients are some of the most demanding companies in the world. Powerful Mockups Lifeless mockups don’t tell the entire story, but you don’t have time to build a prototype. Balsamiq smartly forces you to focus on layouts and functionality rather than pixels and colors. The “hand drawn” styled mock ups might be garish to some designers but it communicates to non-design savvy the nature of the mockup as a “sketch”. That said, Balsamiq is one of the best deals as there’s no subscription, and great for client communication. However it could really use responsive wireframes. Its fast and quick, and allows for interactive wireframes. Personal Take: I’ve found Balsamiq exceptionally easy to use. ![]() Notable Clients/Endorsements: Apple, Google, Cisco, IBM, Adobe… Product managers, designers, developers, and even clients can now work together in the same tool to quickly iterate over wireframes, before writing code. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting. Using Mockups feels like drawing, but because it’s digital, you can tweak and rearrange easily. It also exports to the web as interactive presentations. Serious projects call for serious tools. It sports smart guides, widget creation, stylizing, collaboration tools and more. Its one of the few prototyping apps that boasts responsive wireframes, specifically designed for UI Designers. Personal Take : Antetype is unusual as its designed for prototyping websites, apps and even manufacturing projects. Notable Clients/Endorsements:Brendan Donohoe, Design Lead at twitter, Ben Dansby, UX Designer at LOYA元 (includes quotes) Design beautiful interfaces, invent new widgets, style them, and put it all together in an interactive prototype! AntetypeĪntetype UI designer is a brand new, ground-breaking design application that supports user-interface designers at every step of their work. If I’m missing any key mockup / wireframing utilities, please let me know. I’ve included the app type, price and the clients that each app boasts (and if they include any actual endorsements). ![]() A few of the tools fall into multiple categories, and two are on the list are rapid prototyping utilities (Jetstrap and Easel.io). I’ve tried to include every utility I could find that was worth mentioning. Instead, I’ve garnered a list of utilities with my impressions, some of which I’ve used (Omnigraffle, Jetstrap) and one of which I use daily (Balsamiq) and a few I’d really like to use (Antetype, Briefs) and taken every utility for a test drive on the list. In an ideal world I’d of had time to learn the ins and outs of every utility on this list and write comprehensive reviews, as I simply lack the resources. One of the aftermaths of the iOS/Android revolution has been an explosion of mockup/wireframing utilities. ![]()
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