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

 

Fwiw, Balsamiq gives out free licenses to open source projects.

Natan

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Allan Caeg <allancaeg@xxxxxxxxx> 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 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 Balsamiq
> on Ubuntu, which works fine on Windows.
>
> Allan
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:20 AM, David Siegel <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> 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/Pencil/ . It's a
>> > Sketching and Prototyping on Firefox. It can be a stand-alone app (based
>> > on XUL) too. I'm surprised that it's not getting a lot of attention from
>> > the open source community considering that they are into Linux and GNOME
>> > judging by the screenshot on their website and their pre-compiled
>> > packages for distros.
>> >
>> > Download it from http://evolus.vn/Pencil/Downloads.html
>> >
>> > Let's support projects like this =)
>> >
>> > Allan
>> >
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