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signor_rossi

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Registered: 2007-08-24

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What program to use for UI prototyping of this kind?

I would like to do an audio player UI for touch screens and am looking for a program to do the prototype. The prototype UI would be just built of bitmaps, no buttons or drop down boxes or whatever are needed. Dimensions are fixed and in pixel (840x480), I want to simulate transitions and actions when active elements are tapped (like going to another screen, showing a popup, etc.) and would test it through VNC on a Nokia 770. Any suggestions?

Thanks, signorRossi.

freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: What program to use for UI prototyping of this kind?

You might want to look at Clutter.

http://clutter-project.org/

signor_rossi

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Registered: 2007-08-24

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Re: What program to use for UI prototyping of this kind?

Seems to be a good choice when developing something ground up, it is just that I really need only a program to do the UI prototyping (already did some paper and stencil mock-ups), as the player-program I want try to do the touch UI for is already there. It is written in LUA and since I don't know anything about LUA yet and it would me cost a great amount of time getting into it I want to see how sound and usable my mock-ups are before investing that time, therefore I am looking for a easy to use solution to do the mock-up. Sorry for not being as clear in the first post.
I'll keep clutter in mind, though.

Thanks, signorRossi.

Last edited by signor_rossi (2008-07-22 08:02:16)

bsdson.tw

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Registered: 2005-05-06

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Re: What program to use for UI prototyping of this kind?

The Pencil Project

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Home.html

signor_rossi

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Registered: 2007-08-24

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Re: What program to use for UI prototyping of this kind?

The Pencil Project

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Home.html

Thank you, but I already had found this. It's just that I didn't find a way to use measure elements in pixels, but now that I think of it, if I use only images alredy of the size I need that might work. Now if would understnad how to actually link elements or pages, gonna look closer at the docs now...

Bye, signorRossi.