{"id":719,"date":"2011-05-06T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=719"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:29:57","slug":"on-my-brief-experience-with-wireframe-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/719","title":{"rendered":"On My Brief Experience with Wireframe Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a tool to quickly and easily build wireframes.\u00a0 Oh, it had to be free too.\u00a0 Luckily, I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/07\/15\/wireframing-tools\/\">useful list of wireframing tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first one I picked was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplediagrams.com\/\">Simple Diagrams<\/a>.\u00a0 I like Adobe AIR apps, already have the runtime and it looked nice.\u00a0 Even had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplediagrams.com\/help\/tutorials\">some tutorials<\/a>, even if they were third party generated.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I&#8217;m actually using it, and I go to save the image and there&#8217;s no save!\u00a0 You can export as PNG, but you can&#8217;t, using the free version, save a project, shut down your computer, turn it on again, and then open up your project to where you were.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m no opponent of freemium business models, but if you can&#8217;t save a diagram and come back to it, the program is really crippled.\u00a0 Call it a demo, but it&#8217;s not anywhere near a free functioning version.<\/p>\n<p>I then tried <a href=\"http:\/\/wireframe.talltree.us\/\">Web Site Wireframe<\/a>, but wanted something that would work offline.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/pencil.evolus.vn\/\">Pencil Prject<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the most polished (one of the tabs in the main screen is &#8220;My Stuffs&#8221;) but it worked&#8211;I could edit files offline, and save projects and re-open them later. It&#8217;s also kinda cool because it is built on top of the XUL and Firefox application frameworks (they have a plugin and a standalone app available).<\/p>\n<p>Any wireframe tools you would recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a tool to quickly and easily build wireframes.\u00a0 Oh, it had to be free too.\u00a0 Luckily, I found this useful list of wireframing tools. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ria","category-useful-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}