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Show HN: TinyUX – Grid based low-fi wireframing on your mobile phone

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Post by juliushuijnk »

You tap icons to create a wireframe, or do some visual brainstorming. Then export the image to share on Slack, Gitlab, etc.

I wanted to work on neural net that interprets an imported image of a wireframe, to then manipulate it inside an app. Figured it would be best to first build the wireframing app. So I created TinyUX.

It's released as quickly as possible this influenced some choices:

- While created in React Native, it's Android only. - It's paid only (~$5). While freemium might make more sense, this was quicker to release, since in-app-purchases in RN is not trivial. First app I created that's not free, so that's an experiment too. - There are no online features, all is stored on the device.

Looking to validate with UX designers, but all feedback is welcome.

Show HN: TinyUX – Grid based low-fi wireframing on your mobile phone
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Post by juliushuijnk »

marban wrote: post #2

https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/

Yes Balsamiq is nice. TinyUX is a mobile app, so unique in that sense. Also TinyUX is cheaper ($5). Price will get up once the app gains in features.

Once there is traction adding online features, web- and desktop interfaces will also make sense.

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Post by juliushuijnk »

devmor wrote: post #5

Oh hey, this is actually nice and fills a niche that I can use - on-the-fly layout prototyping with clients. If it was available on iPad, I'd pay $5 for it personally, $10 if it could export UML or some kind of XML definition.

Hi, planning to do iOS release next year. It's built in React Native, so should be easy in theory, only thing is that don't have a have personal OSX laptop (required for publishing) nor Apple developer account at the moment.

Your not the first to ask for it, so I guess I'll have to figure it out.

> $10 if it could export UML or some kind of XML definition

Interesting. One of the features I plan to work on this week is export & import of source files. My first plan is to 'brute force' it, and export a .json file with a attributes for each cell in the grid. But could also be yml, or even XML I guess.

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Post by alistairclark7 »

juliushuijnk wrote: post #6
devmor wrote: post #5

Oh hey, this is actually nice and fills a niche that I can use - on-the-fly layout prototyping with clients. If it was available on iPad, I'd pay $5 for it personally, $10 if it could export UML or some kind of XML definition.

Hi, planning to do iOS release next year. It's built in React Native, so should be easy in theory, only thing is that don't have a have personal OSX laptop (required for publishing) nor Apple developer account at the moment. Your not the first to ask for it, so I guess I'll have to figure it out. > $10 if it could export UML or some kind of XML definition Interesting. One of the features I plan to work on this week i…

Last time I made a react native app I used https://www.macincloud.com/ to publish on iOS. I'm not affiliated and haven't used them in about 3 years though. It was a little bit of hassle but cheaper than buying a mac in the short term.

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Post by devmor »

juliushuijnk wrote: post #6
devmor wrote: post #5

Oh hey, this is actually nice and fills a niche that I can use - on-the-fly layout prototyping with clients. If it was available on iPad, I'd pay $5 for it personally, $10 if it could export UML or some kind of XML definition.

Hi, planning to do iOS release next year. It's built in React Native, so should be easy in theory, only thing is that don't have a have personal OSX laptop (required for publishing) nor Apple developer account at the moment. Your not the first to ask for it, so I guess I'll have to figure it out. > $10 if it could export UML or some kind of XML definition Interesting. One of the features I plan to work on this week i…

Used mac minis are your friend when it comes to having an Apple box just to build releases!

The reason I mentioned UML/XML are because those are the languages used by most popular wireframing apps for cross compatibility - if you do decide to add that feature, I would look into how they implement it specifically and it will probably save you a lot of work too!

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Post by juliushuijnk »

devmor wrote: post #9
juliushuijnk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, planning to do iOS release next year. It's built in React Native, so should be easy in theory, only thing is that don't have a have personal OSX laptop (required for publishing) nor Apple developer account at the moment. Your not the first to ask for it, so I guess I'll have to figure it out. > $10 if it could export UML or some kind of XML definition Interesting. One of the features I plan to work on this week i…

Used mac minis are your friend when it comes to having an Apple box just to build releases! The reason I mentioned UML/XML are because those are the languages used by most popular wireframing apps for cross compatibility - if you do decide to add that feature, I would look into how they implement it specifically and it will probably save you a lot of work too!

Thanks for the tips.

Thinking about creating an open source repo for a script that will turn my export json in any other sort of file-format.

Wrote an articla in 2017 about the need for universal .ux files. https://medium.com/proof-of-concept/creating-a-true-ux-tool-...

But have to do some more re-thinking on the specifics.

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