Congratulations for finally releasing. I have been looking forward to trying it out.
Macaw V1 Released
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#32Does anyone know if it differs from Adobe Edge Reflow in any meaningful way? It superficially seems like it takes a similar approach. Given that it comes with a hefty price tag, i'd need some serious persuasion.
Naturally I'll play with it a bit more for myself before drawing any concrete conclusions.
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#33Some thoughts: I heard about this a couple months ago at a conference on rapid prototyping, and I've been waiting for it to come out in the hopes that we would finally have a rapid prototyping solution for user interface designs. I'm basically looking for a balsamiq with lots of built-in animations and UI interaction patterns. Unfortunately, it looks like this product is geared more towards being a full-featured WYSI…
There are some pretty sweet pencil & paper + app solutions out there, that allow you to draw the UI and take pictures of it. http://maniacdev.com/2013/06/nifty-iphone-app-allowing-you-t...
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#34I am glad its not subscription based. "Price is a flat fee and not a subscription. Price includes all updates to version 1 of Macaw."
I'm actually disappointed it isn't subscription based. $179 is a pretty big sum, and there's no way I can thoroughly test out the app in 2 weeks (I'm a programmer, not a designer).
I would have happily bitten the bullet on a monthly fee.
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#35502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.4.4 ... when trying to activate my email address. Great!
They seem to be having problems with their app. I wasn't able to view the pricing page for the same reason.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux? This sounds soooo 90s… Since then we have un*x that simply works: Mac.
And it ships with NSA backdoors! FREE
I heard that some of the open source developers work to seed the code with 0-days that can be sold for as much as $250k a pop to NSA…
So… NOTHING IS FOR FREE! And with Apple you can at least get a decent GUI that doesn't make your eyes bleed.
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#37I'm sure it's worth it, but $180 seems a bit steep for something so new and unknown.
Wish there was a more entry price at around $20 - $30 that maybe limited a few features.
I know there's the trial, but I'd actually like to just pay $20 to have unlimited number of days to 'think' about upgrading to the $180 rather than have the clock ticking, as sometimes you don't get to evaluate the way you'd like / plan over those 2 weeks.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the link. With the caveat that I just watched the video and didn't do any further digging... It looks really cool, but it may be for people who need a lot more freedom with their animations. Honestly, my needs could be met with just a handful of interactions (slide up, slide down, modal, tooltip, show, hide) with a handful of events (mouse in, mouse out, click, etc)
Why not just rig up and expose jQuery slide animations as buttons to your designers? Could be as simple as they click on the container they want to animate -> click on an event -> click on an animation.
Because the elements only exist in my wireframes :)
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#39I'm sure it's worth it, but $180 seems a bit steep for something so new and unknown. Wish there was a more entry price at around $20 - $30 that maybe limited a few features. I know there's the trial, but I'd actually like to just pay $20 to have unlimited number of days to 'think' about upgrading to the $180 rather than have the clock ticking, as sometimes you don't get to evaluate the way you'd like / plan over thos…
If this works, that price is a pittance to anyone who'd use it professionally. People ask for $100-200 things here (scopes, cheap logic analyzers, jtag stuff) just to play with them, and we don't blink, because what's the point of wasting time second guessing people?
A $180 price point makes me much more hopeful about this particular piece of software. That sounds like a very reasonable and (importantly) sustainable price.
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#40I'm sure it's worth it, but $180 seems a bit steep for something so new and unknown. Wish there was a more entry price at around $20 - $30 that maybe limited a few features. I know there's the trial, but I'd actually like to just pay $20 to have unlimited number of days to 'think' about upgrading to the $180 rather than have the clock ticking, as sometimes you don't get to evaluate the way you'd like / plan over thos…
If this works, that price is a pittance to anyone who'd use it professionally. People ask for $100-200 things here (scopes, cheap logic analyzers, jtag stuff) just to play with them, and we don't blink, because what's the point of wasting time second guessing people? A $180 price point makes me much more hopeful about this particular piece of software. That sounds like a very reasonable and (importantly) sustainable…
Yes, I'm not disputing the $180 as the full price, especially for professionals.
I'm just saying personally I'd prefer a cheaper price point option for better evaluation.
Certainly would hand over the $180 after evaluation.
As it stands, I don't feel I can eval properly in a 14 day trial, and I don't want to drop $180 without consideration.
Seems I'm being down voted, not sure why as it's just feedback as to my reaction on pricing which I figured the devs could find useful regardless of if there are other people who would pay $180 immediately.