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GUI Design Studio 4.2 Released

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

New Version 4.2GUI Design Studio version 4.2 is now available for immediate download. This is a maintenance release with some fixes and changes based on customer requests. It’s a free upgrade for all registered v4 users. Users of v3 and earlier versions can try this version for 30 days or purchase an upgrade.

For customers using version 4.0 or 4.1 of GUI Design Studio, simply install the new version and your existing licenses will continue to work. Be sure to install the correct Professional or Express edition though!

NEW: Play Sound

A simple “Play Sound” Storyboard element has been added for playing small WAV files in response to user actions. There’s also a corresponding new “Stop Sound” element.

Note that this is intended for short ‘system’ sounds and not for playing long audio tracks in multimedia application designs.

Sound Test Design

NEW: Resize Anchors

Resize Anchors have been added to all elements to automatically re-position and resize contained elements when an element is resized.

Top, Left, Bottom and Right anchors can be set to be Fixed, Proportional or nothing from the “Position” tab of the property editor or by clicking on the new Resize Anchor ‘lollipop’ graphics in the visual editor:
Resize Anchors
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GUI Design Studio 4.1 Released

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

New Version 4.1GUI Design Studio version 4.1 is now available for immediate download. This is a maintenance release with some fixes and changes based on customer requests. It’s a free upgrade for all registered v4 users. Users of v3 and earlier versions can try this version for 30 days or purchase an upgrade.

For customers using version 4.0 of GUI Design Studio, simply install the new version and your existing licenses will continue to work. Be sure to install the correct Professional or Express edition though!

New Element Grouping in v4.1

This has been a long-standing request from users so we’re pleased to introduce element grouping into version 4.1. This will become an essential feature for creating more complex custom elements.

Grouped elements form a unit so that selecting and moving one element within the group will move them all together. Elements within a group can still be individually selected to resize them and change their properties and grouping does not affect parent/child relationships.

First select all of the elements you want to group together, then use the new “Group Elements” command on the right-click context menu (Ctrl+G hotkey):
Element Grouping
You can also add elements into an existing group using this command. The “Ungroup Elements” command (Ctrl+Shift+G) will remove all selected elements from their respective groups.
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March Madness Discount

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Version 4 Launch CouponTo celebrate the release of V4.0 of GUI Design Studio, we’re offering you 25% off the list price for the rest of March 2010.

Version 4 has some fantastic new features in which help you get a working prototype in the hands of your users and engineers even faster.

Extended interaction functionality means your user interfaces can be even more realistic than ever with working with data values, conditional content and business rules driving navigation. Custom Elements and Templates let you and your colleagues share your work on multiple projects with ease.

We have some great new features planned for later in the year that will be available free of charge to v4 license holders.

Now is a great time to take advantage of the powerful prototyping features that GUI Design Studio provides, and if you’re an existing user, we’re sure you’ll want to upgrade.

But here is a little incentive…

If you purchase a new license or upgrade from a fully licensed copy of v3 by 31 March 2010, we’ll give you a 25% discount!

Here are the facts:

  List price March offer
GUI Design Studio V4 Express $129 $97
GUI Design Studio V4 Professional $499 $375
Upgrade from Express to Pro $399 $299
Upgrade from v3 to Pro $149 $112

If you’ve been keeping up to date with V3 you’ll know that we’ve released some great features in the last 12 months including the huge Calendar element just last month, so keeping up to date makes sense.

To take advantage of this offer, simply visit the buy page and use coupon code V4-2TKAW8 on the order form, and your 25% discount will automatically be applied. But you’ll need to buy before the end of the month to qualify!

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GUI Design Studio 4.0 Released With New Interaction and Templates

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

New Version 4.0GUI Design Studio version 4.0 is now available and includes some fantastic new features in two editions, both with a 30-day trial.

The new features are grouped around interactivity and element and design sharing. They enable you to build more realistic and interactive prototypes and to share or reuse individual elements or whole design templates with ease.

New editions

GUI Design Studio is now available in two different editions.

GUI Design Studio Express provides the prototyping functionality that was in v3, but focussed on individuals without the need to share projects and generate specification documentation.

GUI Design Studio Professional builds on v3, adding new interactivity and design sharing features, and is better suited to those working on larger projects, in teams, or on multiple designs.

All projects created in one edition will run in the other, or in the free viewer, except that the enhanced interactivity features in the Professional edition (see below) are not available in the Express edition. You can compare the two editions here.

Prototypes get more interactive (Pro edition only)

As your user interface design develops, everyone involved starts to focus on the details of interactivity. What process does the user need to go through to achieve certain tasks, how many button presses, how much navigation, is it clear and obvious, can they make simple mistakes?

All of these questions, and more, need to be considered in developing and refining a good UI and they cannot be addressed easily in a simple mock-up.

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GUI Design Studio 3.6 Released With New Calendar Elements

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

New Version 3.6GUI Design Studio version 3.6 is now available for immediate download. This is most likely the last 3.x maintenance release before we launch version 4.0 next month. It contains some fixes and changes based on customer requests and is a free upgrade for all registered users.

For customers using any prior version of GUI Design Studio, simply install the new version and your existing licenses will continue to work.

Calendar Elements

Calendar ElementsWith so many requests from users, we’ve finally added Calendar elements to the mix. This was essentially the last missing native Windows control and a common feature in a vast number of desktop and Web applications.

So why has it taken so long to appear? Well, that’s a very good question. Right from the start, with the version 1.0 release 5 years ago, we realized that calendar controls were important. But rather than create complex elements for every conceivable situation, the idea then was to provide basic building blocks from which other elements could be assembled.

The very first design samples library contained various calendar controls with different display options. We thought that this would be enough for simple mock-up purposes. Well, clearly, we were wrong! Creating calendar controls from scratch using text boxes and other elements is both tedious and time consuming, especially if you don’t want a design that’s stuck in 2005!
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