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Viewing By Day : December 22, 2008 / Main
December 22, 2008

Check Out Peldi's Balsamiq

Many of you probably remember Peldi (aka Giacomo Guilizzoni) from his appearances at MAX events. Peldi spent 6 years at Adobe where he worked on Connect and more. I bumped into him at MAX in Milan, and we chatted briefly about his new company and product, and he gave me his card. Over the weekend I had the chance to tinker with his latest creation, Balsamiq Mockups, a utility used to create screen mockups. This is a fun little app. The UI is very slick, the included controls are extensive and highly configurable, and the app is available as a desktop application (courtesy of AIR) and as a plug-in for poplar web apps. He's posted online demos that explain the app better than I could in a few words here, so check it out.

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+1 for Mockups -- it is now my main application for creating the initial UI designs for presentation to the customer for approval. It is "faster than paper", has every control I could need for a Web Application, and still has an overall appearance that is "low fidelity" enough that the customers will not mistake it for actual screens.
# Posted By Troy Allen | 12/29/08 2:16 PM

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