Friday, April 24, 2009

Mock Me A Website

Here's an idea for a product if anyone would care to make it. I'm frequently tasked with creating a new web based product. The problem is that using even a WYSIWYG editor is too slow for what I want when we're having brainstorming or general design sessions. What I need is a program that I could fire up and very quickly lay out the general flow and page design. Here's my wishlist:


  1. I can zoom out to see the overall map of the site

  2. I can zoom into a page and see the rough design of the page

  3. I can draw a component on the page

  4. I can make notes on the page
  5. I can link a component to go to another page

  6. From the zoomed out view I can move pages around

  7. From the zoomed out view I can see the links between pages

  8. I can edit the source of the HTML and when I preview the page the sketched page can be an overlay on top of the page so I can compare the "real" page with the "sketched" page



If this already exists then tell me where. I'd love to spend time and create this, but I know better then to think I can make the time for something like this.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

linux + bamboo = still aweful handwriting


I just spent about an hour or so getting my new Wacom Bamboo "fun" working in linux. It took some time to get it to work properly because of one little tiny step in the How-To that I was following. As you can see though it works and my handwriting is still just as aweful when captured by a pen tablet as it is with a pen and paper.