Web Application Design Walkthrough Video

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. […]

Web Application GUI Design Example In The Gallery

December 6th, 2007

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 […]

GUI Design Studio 2.4 Released

November 29th, 2007

We’re pleased to announce that GUI Design Studio version 2.4 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. GUI Design Studio version 2.4 is now Vista compatible with changes […]

GUI Design Studio 2.3 Update

March 22nd, 2007

Further to the version 2.3 release of our GUI Design Studio software prototyping tool a couple of weeks ago, we have now released a minor update. This fixes a couple of Component Override bugs that evaded our testing. We’ve also taken the opportunity to include a couple of extra tweaks: Improved detection of Web applications when using components […]

GUI Design Studio 2.3 Released

March 9th, 2007

We’re pleased to announce that GUI Design Studio version 2.3 has now been released and is available for immediate download. If you’ve already tried a previous version then check your email today for download instructions otherwise please request a trial. There’s a host of new features in this version, including: Enhancements for Web application design […]

Announcing the winner of our "spot the film" competition…

October 23rd, 2006

Thanks to those that took part in this little bit of fun, both on the blog and by email. The correct answer to the film is of course “Harvey“, made in 1950 and starring James Stewart. It’s a wonderful film that you really must see! The odd one out in the cast list was Mary […]

GUI Design Studio Clones Microsoft Outlook?

October 18th, 2006

Following last week’s launch of GUI Design Studio version 2.2, we’ve had quite a few questions about what it’s really capable of and maybe you’ve been wondering about that yourself. We figured the best way to answer that was by way of an example prototype design. The trouble was, we didn’t have anything big enough or suitable […]

Low-Fidelity or High-Fidelity Prototypes for Software?

October 12th, 2006

Let me quickly explain the terms here. Fidelity refers to the level of detail, accuracy or coverage of a prototype. It can relate to functionality but most people use the term in relation to visual appearance and that’s what I’ll be referring to here. So the lowest of the low-fidelity prototypes are very quick hand […]

GUI Design Studio 2.2 Released

October 10th, 2006

Caretta Software GUI Design Studio version 2.2 is now available for immediate download. If you’ve already tried it then check your email today for download instructions otherwise you can request a trial. In the last post I mentioned the new fonts support in 2.2. You can see from this screenshot that the Typeface picker has […]

The GUI Design Gallery Is Now Open!

July 3rd, 2006

We’ve now set up our GUI Design Gallery on the Caretta Software Web site. This will showcase selected prototypes created using GUI Design Studio. We’ll be adding more designs to the Gallery on a monthly basis. Each featured design is described with a video walkthough of the prototype in action so you can see how […]