Is there a way of drawing tables?, It'd be great if I could do it.
Review my Startup: jMockups - A Better Way to Web Design
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#72Is there a way of drawing tables?, It'd be great if I could do it.
That should be doable. Thanks --
Re: Review my Startup: jMockups - A Better Way to Web Design
#73My background is visual design and I've worked at a couple agencies in NY/SF. I think this site does a couple things pretty well: - Really easy to implement Q+D ideas - Linking to images online in a great idea. Why I wouldn't use it (Just going to focus on my big deal breakers): - Where I start to think this breaks down is working with a lot of layers. In Photoshop I can group things together into layer folders and e…
Hey James, appreciate the comments. I have mixed feelings about layers. In an elaborate design I understand how they're useful, but for most website mockups I think you can get by without them. You can, for what its worth, lock elements currently with jMockups (see the property inspector), which might be a good middle ground. The editor currently supports most of the standard keyboards you'd expect from an app (Ctrl+…
Thanks for the response.
I think a good portion of designers who use Photoshop use more shortcuts than standard user. M for marquee. U for shape. Command + Click on Object and move to duplicate the object. Space for hand tool. In other words, every tool has a shortcut so that it's easier to access and in fact, I barely use tool menus except to edit values. It's just so much more efficient to use keyboard commands than to click on every single element.
Docking the property inspector to the left or right or allowing the user to customize it would be a great option.
I still think layers provide a lot of power that's really useful (layer styles, easy to switch which object appears over what, easy to create multiple states) but I'll defer to you since this is your vision for the project.
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#74I love where this is going. One thing that I would like to see included, which is absolutely essential for the way I design website is line-height: it is the core structure of my design and layout. (Read more about line-heights and vertical rhythms here: http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm ) At this moment in time I feel trapped using Adobe products to produce my layouts. If jMockups solves the follow…
Seems like what you're talking about is a baseline grid.
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#75I completely disagree with everyone else, I believe there is a large market for tools like this. Adobe make a lot of money from photoshop and I personally along with most web designers I know are dissatisfied with photoshop and its alternatives, they are are terrible tools for designing websites and applications. I think it needs a lot of polish, your application is designed like a website itself, dont have a footer,…
Photoshop's power = macros and actions (IMHO there are commercial outfits producing actions for Photoshop) I have yet to see a web based design tool that has a good macro system - even basic ones (like auto align, increase/decrease font size, etc.) are missing It's like telling someone who uses emacs to go and use gedit.
I have very very rarely used photoshop macros.
Obviously power users will be hard to make switch, however there is a whole lot of people paying for "less powerful" code editors because they have a much lower barrier to entry and do the things way want to do better, bringing up textmate vs emacs at least to me strengthens the argument.
Re: Review my Startup: jMockups - A Better Way to Web Design
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey James, appreciate the comments. I have mixed feelings about layers. In an elaborate design I understand how they're useful, but for most website mockups I think you can get by without them. You can, for what its worth, lock elements currently with jMockups (see the property inspector), which might be a good middle ground. The editor currently supports most of the standard keyboards you'd expect from an app (Ctrl+…
Thanks for the response. I think a good portion of designers who use Photoshop use more shortcuts than standard user. M for marquee. U for shape. Command + Click on Object and move to duplicate the object. Space for hand tool. In other words, every tool has a shortcut so that it's easier to access and in fact, I barely use tool menus except to edit values. It's just so much more efficient to use keyboard commands tha…
I just wanted to echo the feature request, layers (and nested layers at that) would be a huge huge feature for me, thats pretty much why I dont use gimp.
and being able to see your selections as you drag for a miltiple selection would be cool too, I think thats part of what I was talking about before with 'feeling nice'
Re: Review my Startup: jMockups - A Better Way to Web Design
#77Damn! Only yesterday I bought the balsamiq :) I checked your stuff briefly but did not get a chance to play around. I definitely think there is a market for this.