The Big Bing
Microsoft comes with the big bing (or “disease” in chinese as Techcrunch relates)
“The world doesn’t need another search engine, it needs a better decision engine” (just too funny not to reproduce)
Balsamiq Mockups makes wireframing fun
When it comes to arhitecture there are some tools out there but I was never happy with any of them.
Visio makes the mockups look ancient
Omnigraffle has came out of that business in their latest version (have no idea where they hidden the software UI library)
Axure doesn’t justify the price. The wireframes don’t end up looking far from Visio’s end result
Gliffy is buggy buggy
Now whenever I hear about a new tool I go ahead and try it. I want to see if I’m missing a better alternative to the Fireworks that gives me a hard time. Not because it’s hard to use but because it’s hard not to design when you’re in the process and you have so many tools under your hands
That’s how I came to Balsamiq Mock-ups. I played with the online version but it was hard to get a gut feeling for it. I couldn’t really play with the interfaces I wanted to design since I couldn’t save it afterwards. But it looked like fun
