I missed this last week but Marshall Kirkpatrick has a blog post up about Balsamiq, a mockup creator tool that was built using AIR. the video (below) shows off a pretty slick little application with a nice UI (and I love the Quicksilver-style search). This is one of the reasons I think AIR absolutely changes the game. It makes it really, really easy to quickly build cross-patform desktop apps and in this case, with a ...

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“If sketching is about asking questions, prototyping is about suggesting answers. Sketching takes place at the beginning of the development process, prototyping only later.” – Jessie Scanlon reviewing Buxton’s Sketching User Experiences in Business Week As a designer I find that the most productive parts of a project are the exploration phase, the very early part where your are researching, sketching, exploring ideas and concepts trying to formulate an approach. It has always been really ...

Balsamiq Mockups is an incredible application for creating user interface mockups. The application allows you layout interface sketches using the 50 interface controls included. Controls are added to the canvas or notebook by dragging and dropping or by using an insert input with auto-completion suggestions. As with Visio, many controls may be easily customized by editing values in the properties panel, and may be modified to show state, e.g. selected, disabled, etc. This looks like ...