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Nice Presentation About Documenting Interactive Websites

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Patrick Kennedy has released the slides from his presentation at the “Enhancing Online User Experience” conference in Melbourne Australia.

His Documenting Interactive Websites blog post contains the slides (also below) along with some great notes that he took after the session. Note that the link below is for the slideshare copy (without notes).

There are some nice sitemap, wireframe and storyboarding slides in the presentation to enjoy:

Documenting For Interactive Websites

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ux melbourne)

Patrick discusses the inadequacies of traditional documentation for the design of interactive Web 2.0 sites and makes the case for prototyping as an appropriate way to describe them. This is clearly a view that I share.

As tools like GUI Design Studio become more widely known and fully mature, I think that prototyping will become a common part of Website design as the ease and simplicity of using the tools will remove all barriers and the advantages become apparent.

Take a look at Patrick’s presentation and see what you think!

Tags: documentation, interactive design, Prototyping, websitedesign
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GUI Design Studio 3.0 Released

Friday, June 6th, 2008

GUI Design Studio version 3.0 has now been released and is available for immediate download. If you’ve already tried a previous version or subscribed to our newsletter then check your email for download instructions, otherwise please request a trial.

With GUI Design Studio version 3.0, you can design and prototype a broad range of applications.

Rich Desktop Applications
In addition to the 40+ common controls included in GUI Design Studio, you can use a variety of other generic elements and add graphic images and icons too.

And with extensive support for tabbed interfaces, modal popups, dialogs and a whole host of other features, you can design almost any application.
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Tags: GUI Design Studio, release
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GUI Design Studio 3.0 Does Vista, Ribbons and More – Beta Available

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Your ability to create rapid user interface designs and application prototypes without coding is about to get better with the upcoming release of GUI Design Studio 3.0.

You can now gain early access to 3.0 through our Beta Program but first, here’s a few details about the new version:

With version 3.0, GUI Design Studio has now fully embraced Windows Vista. It was already Vista compatible but all of the elements have now been re-styled to provide the Vista look and feel in addition to the existing XP, NT (Classic) and Outline styles.

These are not separate elements, of course. You can change the style at any time to see what your designs will look like on different Windows platforms or to show an “unfinished mockup” look for review purposes.

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Tags: GUI Design Studio, software prototyping, User Interface Design
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Web Application Design Walkthrough Video

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

The walkthrough video for the Internet Banking Web Application design is now available to view in the Gallery. This gives you a brief (2-minute) tour of the design and points out a few of the key features.

You can download the entire project (only 86 KB) to see how the whole design was put together. The project files can be opened in GUI Design Studio or the free Viewer that can be downloaded from the Gallery.

Tags: example design, GUI Design Studio, web design
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Web Application GUI Design Example In The Gallery

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Internet Banking Web Application GUI Design Most of our design examples so far have focussed on Desktop applications but GUI Design Studio is also highly suited to Web Application design.

From the many requests for a Web Application sample, and the dozens of different kinds of application requested, we’ve put together an Internet Banking example.

We chose Banking because it would be familiar to most people and we also had easy access to a few real examples to crib ideas from (not that we’re lazy – we just didn’t want to spend too much time re-inventing a good design).

This new sample demonstrates:
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