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Balsamiq Mockups : Review

Posted on March 5, 2009 with 7 Comments

What is Balsamiq Mockups ?

Balsamiq Mockups is a solution for the real headache that each designers faces. It all starts when the client rejects the PSD mockup you have made with loads of effort and valuable time. Balsamiq mockups is a cross platform app which will help you to build rough sketch of the interface design project in a matter of time..

The Interface

One of the best part of the Balsamiq Mockups is its interface layout. It has a very easy, simple and usable Interface layout. Which will help its users to arrange elements by dragging it from the showcase to the workspace. Its interface elements collection can be accessed through a scrollable showcase and can be sorted using certain credentials.

Balloons : Its not just some air inside !

Posted on December 9, 2008 with 4 Comments

Past some months can be considered as the months of festivals world wide.. Balloons are one of the attractions in these festivals. While we, our kids or brothers play with balloons, there are some creative rascals who where searching for their prey, wandering here and there with their cameras and a creative piece of brain ! They will not leave even one piece of floating air bags, don’t consider its shape or theory, they just use it wisely. Let me show you some of the creative / attractive photographs I came before.

Hot Air Balloons

Latex Balloons

Ya I know this list is growing crzy, I have to stop this by now. The creativity in balloons will never end here, so check the searches I made on web and some creative communities on the internet like deviantART and flcikr.

12 AIR Apps that every Web Designer must try

Posted on October 12, 2008 with 4 Comments

Every designers and developers loves tools that simplifies their works. And even if you have a complicate heavy software that does the job, you will be very happy if you get a tiny fast loading alternative, what if it is cross-platform too ?! I’ve compiled a list of 12 Adobe AIR apps that can replace every designers and developers toolbox. You must have Adobe Integrated Runtime installed in your computer before you start using these apps, AIR is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux !

WebKut

WebKut is a screen capturing app with an easy to use interface and many functions like full-page screenshot, selection etc..

Shrink-O-Matic

This is a cool app lets a photo blogger or a flickr addict to resize their images in the predefined specification, just drag the Image to the app after defining the specification, its very easy !

COLOURlovers

My be you go to COLORlovers.com for color pallets, patterns and inspiration, Now you can do it directly from your desktop with this cool app. lets you search inside the whole database of COLORlovers.com

ConceptShare

ConceptShare allows you to create online workspace for sharing designs. This desktop app allows you to upload files directly from your desktop.

Ora Time & Expense

An application for tracking times worked on a project, that works with a timer and generates timesheets & expense reports.

Doomi

A simple to-do management tool, Beside simple and easy interface Doomi can alerts you about the upcoming tasks.

Snippely

A very simple yet functional & “must use” tool for developers and web designers.

Every developer has some favorite libraries, functions & other ready-to-use codes. Using Snippely, you can group, organize & store your code snippets easily.

Font Picker

Presents you all the fonts installed in your computer & makes font selection easier. Also you can supply custom text also on this web-based app.

Em Calculator

Like the name says, Em Calculator allows you to supply em values for CSS coding, along with some extra features. If you want to read more, you can read it from the download page

Klok

Klok is a desktop app to track time you spent on a project and anything related. With graphs and better organization.

Icon Generator

A Tiny app lets you to design CS3 style or Web2.0 style icons easily, Just pick desired color and type the name, You will get icons in 4 different size.

Pixus

A pixel ruler that enables you to measure the size of any screen object.. With browser skins, overlay mode you can also preview how your design will look in the real Environment.

Web & interface designers will love it.