Re: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 15 Oct 2009, at 05:44, Guy Lunardi wrote:

> Stormy suggested we reach out to the usability team to see what they
> think.

FWIW, here's the reply I sent to Guy's message to the usability list.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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• From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
• To: Guy Lunardi <glunardi novell com>
• Cc: usability gnome org
• Subject: Re: [Usability] [Fwd: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...]
• Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:04:36 +0100

On 15 Oct 2009, at 17:10, Guy Lunardi wrote:

Also, I understand of course that YOU do not need such a tool. Inkscape and the likes can do the same. The idea is for everyone else (people like myself) to generate mockups to share their ideas.

There's actually a whole bunch of tools out there for doing this sort of thing now... ForeUI (Java) and FlairBuilder (AIR) are another couple of good cross-platform ones:

<http://www.foreui.com/>
<http://www.flairbuilder.com/>

CogTool from Carnegie Mellon is a particularly interesting one -- it's free and open source, and it automatically evaluates your prototypes using a predictive human performance model. But that, as you might expect, does make it a bit harder to learn and use:

<http://cogtool.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/>

(Despite apparently just being a Java + clisp app, they say it doesn't run on Linux and there are no plans to make it do so -- maybe that would be an interesting project for somebody here?)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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From: "Guy Lunardi" <glunardi novell com> <GLunardi novell com>
To:  <marketing-list gnome org>
Sent: Sun Oct 11 08:23:37 2009
Subject: Do-Gooders and Other Free License Recipients...
All,

While I realize that their software doesn't use any GNOME technologies, it is still a very useful tool that I personally use often for projects.

I was wondering if anyone thought that contacting Balsamiq and asking

them to consider donating licenses to GNOME Foundation members would be

useful?
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups

Having used their software for quite some time, I know that the projects

we used it for had a much great user experience focus during the early
development cycles because of it.

It might be a great opportunity for GNOME to increase its emphasis on

user experience. We could for example use this software as part of some

of our outreach programs (collect feedback earlier on designs).

Please let me know what you think.

Best regards,
-Guy


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