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Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

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post #7

The Flyout Tool is pretty novel. It's one UI quirk that bugs me in a lot of apps that support layering.

For me, this is the best feature. I've been using Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator and Omnigraffle for ages and none of them have an easy way of finding that one element hidden under 10 other layers. This looks like a great solution.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An upvote would do :-)

No, it wouldn't. Since upvotes aren't public it's useless to upvote something to show support of a subthread that is already on top in its thread.

That's true, but if more people did this, threads would be unbearable to read so I think it's better that we agree not to. Highly voted posts will appear closer to the top, so upvotes are not entirely wasted.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#43

"Lightbulb image by Svengraph. No affiliation with me or this project." Surprising at least, why are you using branding that doesn't belong to you? Is this a concept? A series of interesting mockups of a mockup app, or are these shots of a working prototype? I get out of this presentation with more questions than answers about this app, and no way to find out more, or be notified.

Ah! What a bummer!

I was going to come in with a compliment -- that's got to be the most lovingly rendered light bulb I've ever seen.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#44

This looks very promising. What a shame to get on hacker news and not have a way to capture users. Just embed an email capture right now on that page. Maybe add a discount promotion for early adopters or beta users. Overall looks great, just hope it's not some vaporwear at the end of the day

Agreed, definitely need to capture emails.

Sorry to break the party, but apparently it's just a concept. As in "no lines of code written yet, and no immediate plan to do so": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467432

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#46
As someone who uses Fireworks everyday, I can say that a tool like this is much needed. In fact, I have been cooking up a similar concept. Would love to connect to pursue a potential collaboration.

By the way, put a form on your page ASAP to let people opt-in for updates.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#47
For anyone interested in a real, shipping app that offers many of the niceties of Enterface, check out Antetype: http://www.antetype.com

I decided to use it for doing the high fidelity mockups of Enterface, and it turned out to have a lot of the stuff I was looking for. I still want my app, though :-)

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#48
Wow.. this has just about everything.

Why not take just the most important layout and design features and create a tool that can output actual web pages?

I'll tell you why. Because web developers code in CSS and HTML. If you can just export a web page, then it takes away their "programming" work.

If we took 1/100th of the effort used to create mockup tools, we could have 10 really great graphical interactive web page and even web application editors.

That stuff about "semantic" markup for SEO is bullshit.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#49
post #10

> Enterface is an app for creating polished, production ready, pixel-perfect, multi-page, multi-state mockups of user interfaces. I like what you've done. But I wonder if mockups really need to be polished, production ready, pixel-perfect etc.

At some stages you may feel the need to create pixel-perfect mockups. Especially when you are working with remote teams you don't have other way to specify how your product look like to developers that don't pay that much attention to details.

Besides from pixel perfect I've been missing a product that allow me to be "screen-transition perfect" since being sketching on omnigraffle / sketch and having to use another product to mockup transitions is a really painful process.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#50
Personally, I find it frustrating that this is nearly the topmost link on HN. It's been established that there's an interest in applications of this nature. The web is littered with concept art, mockups, and promises of 'silver bullet' applications of every conceivable type. Daydreaming about merging the best features from a menagerie of rockstar apps is a pastime older than many of us here. So, what separates this mockup from other similar vagaries & pipe dreams? Has crowdsourced curation reached a tipping point towards the worse on HN? My opinion on the matter would seem to be that of the minority...
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