Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew » UI http://www.alvinashcraft.com Your Source for .NET Development Resources Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:57:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Morning Dew Quick Review – Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2008/11/09/morning-dew-quick-review-balsamiq-mockups-for-desktop/ http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2008/11/09/morning-dew-quick-review-balsamiq-mockups-for-desktop/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:42:12 +0000 Alvin Ashcraft http://www.alvinashcraft.com/2008/11/09/morning-dew-quick-review-balsamiq-mockups-for-desktop/ Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop from Balsamic Studios LLC is a simple, easy to use tool for creating UI mockups with a hand-drawn look to them. Balsamiq is a Micro ISV founded by Giacomo Guilizzoni, formerly a Senior Software Engineering Lead for Adobe. Mockups for Desktop is an Adobe AIR application with a small footprint. It includes over 60 UI element template that users can tweak to meet their layout needs. Resulting drawings convey the designer’s vision without being tied to the look-and-feel of a particular application platform or OS. Designs can be exported to PNG to share/review your mockups with colleagues. At $79 for a single user license, it is also a very affordable design tool.

Here is a basic Outlook-style UI created in only a few minutes with Mockups for Desktop.

Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop

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