Twiddla: Zillon Percent Better at UI Design

http://twiddla.blogspot.com/2008/12/10-zillion-percent-better-at-ui-design.html

by pibefision • 17 years ago

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Balsamiq Mockups copycat!

anuraggoel• 17 years ago

Not quite. Balsamiq has significantly more UI controls and buttons. Mockups aren't Twiddla's focus, so they will never fill the same need that Balsamiq fills (and vice-versa).

patio112• 17 years ago

There were many, many mockups products prior to Balsamiq. Peldi's main contribution is not sucking so much.

Not sucking so much means he richly deserves every dollar he makes, but isn't quite enough to say that every person before and after him in the field is ipso facto copying him. After all, there is the possibility that a few years from now we'll be using the new hotness and wonder how anyone could ever have tolerated Mockups.

(If the new hotness supports Japanese IMEs without closing the control to editing every time I confirm a kanji for a word I am so there. If the new hotness is the next version of Mockups so much the better!)

balsamiq3• 17 years ago

Hi patio11, please email me at peldi@balsamiq.com. I'd love to solve your IME issue but I'll need your help since I'm no IME expert. I'm sure we'll get the bug fixed in no time.

tectonic3• 17 years ago

That's the thing, though, right? Someone else adds drag and drop UI elements and Balsamiq's advantage fades. I think Balsamiq is really cool. I'm inspired by a single developer making a living from a website, but the barriers to entry are scary low.

balsamiq3• 17 years ago

Hi tectonic, I am well aware that the barriers to cloning Mockups are really low (and I've known this from the start). Luckily, features are only part of the package, and in the long run, everyone has the same features more or less. That's why I pay so much attention to customer service in all of its incarnations, which include not only being responsive and respectful, but also having a good website, updating the build regularly, _really_ listening to feedback, treating my customers as I'd like to be treated, being environmentally and socially conscious, fostering a community around Mockups... Also, I plan on building other products in the future, I'm only getting started. :) We'll see how it goes, but so far, so good! :)

jasonkester• 17 years ago

I actually think that having a single developer can be a huge advantage, since you can react so fast to what people ask for.

I added this snap-to-grid and UI mockup piece to Twiddla in a single day. I bet that Dabbleboard didn't spend much longer than that getting their chat interface up. And check out Peldi here taking feature requests from people writing comments. I wouldn't be surprised if there's not a new version up next week with those issues addressed.

That's a really cool trend in software development. There's no way that Adobe CollabroDreadnaught Enterprise or WebEx MeetingBehemoth can hang in an environment like that. I think the next few years will see a lot of big established players get nibbled away at the ankles from small shops like us.

sam_in_nyc• 17 years ago

Twiddla is amazing... will definitely be using it in the future.

tmilewski• 17 years ago

Yes, I will be using this in the future as well.

zhyder• 17 years ago

Can use Dabbleboard (http://www.dabbleboard.com) too :).

I'm impressed that Jason mentions us himself in a comment.

tectonic3• 17 years ago

I just discovered this inline LaTeX editor through them. Cool

http://www.sitmo.com/latex/

Twiddla: Zillon Percent Better at UI Design

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