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In the last seven months I have the need of sketching a bunch of interfaces, but I cannot find a valid tool. I was a Software Architect of a big huge project, busy also on other smaller projects as project manager.
I need a rapid way to sketch use cases, to pass them to a very young team.
Web interfaces are not easy to design, and we was in a very weird situation: the team was forced to use DAOs, with no O/R mapping tool. So I need also to map some interfaces to a database model, to help them building the model and the view classes
After some search, I ended up with MS Visio.
MS Visio is great, but too difficult to use, doing training is hard and so I must discourage its use. Worst, Visio costs a lot, and it is not included with the standard MS-Office Tools.
Visio offers only WinXP look&Feel, which is not the best for designing agnostic web interfaces.
Thank you to a friend of mine, I have the discovered the BalsamIQ Mockup project. Let’s see why it is a so good solution.
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Dynamic languages troubles
Jan 30, 2008 · 3 min readblog-objectsrootcom en software · again ant api arc build business car code complex database design easy eclipse example fix hard hosting http ibm import java lion microsoft perl php plugin project projects python ruby simple small smalltalk sql system tools trouble ui unix war web world·I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.
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