Cristian Pascu — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:22:19 GMT

I’ve been following this project almost since it’s first public release and I surely can tell that this guy made one of those steps that every passionate programmer wishes to: make useful software. Lots attention was brought on this project for the 100K made in 6 months or so, but more than that there is this tremendous value Mockups brought to software makers all around the world.
Thumbs up for the project and article idea!

Cristian Pascu — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:33:48 GMT

I personally find that there is a great amount of value in building a prototype in the very same technology that the project will be built in. Even if the code will not be reused and it’s just throw away code, developers will get a better feeling of the technical complexity of the requirements.

Nevertheless, dedicated tools that faster and easier to use by non-programmers, are sometimes a better a choice.
One more addition to the plethora of tools available out there, I’d like to point out a just released prototyping tool called FlairBuilder. It’s basically a tool that lets create highly interactive multi-paged wireframes with a set of fully functional components, like buttons, links, tabs, and even richer ones like GoogleMaps or YouTube player. These are fully functional components so you can achieve the same level of interactivity as with coded prototype.

You may give it a try online at http://www.flairbuilder.com/demo.

Thanks again for the great post!

Cheers,
Cristian

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Cristian Pascu