Wireframes, mockups, you name it: if you’re a designer, you know what they are.
They are these ghastly but pretty in their simplicity and grayness images that are used to form a framework on which your design is built.
Wireframes are the first stepping stone of a good design, because since they’re so flexible they allow a myriad of changes without real cost.
So, wireframes are fun. But doing them in Photoshop is not always fun! I’m looking for an application (preferrably a Mac one, but a good Windows one will do too) which exists exclusively for this kind of work. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just pleasant to use and effective.
I checked out OmniGraffle but well, it’s mostly targeted to GUI designers and less to web designers. I’ve also downloaded the trial version of Axure for Windows, still haven’t used it though.
Photoshop is my bread ‘n’ butter, it pays the bills, but it’s not the easiest tool of the trade for wireframing.
Any other suggestions by fellow web designers?
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If you follow this blog for a while, you must know how much I like Microsoft OneNote for Windows. I consider it a very helpful tool for brainstorming and notetaking, and being a to-do list addict, I decided to give it a go and try to keep my work to-dos in it, using its built-in tag system.
Well, I don’t know if I did something wrong and broke the thing, but it seems that OneNote is not suitable for keeping tracks of to-dos.
Why?
I created a list of notes and added a tag of “To-do” (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-1) to each of them. Then I added a bunch of custom tags, added some more todos, added my custom tags to them. So far so good.
I decided to give the “Tag Summary” page a go, and I saw in satisfaction that I could see all my to-dos from all my notebooks grouped by tag name, conveniently shown there. I thought wow, that’s cool.
Now you see the to-dos…
Then I marked one of the to-dos (simple to-dos, not my custom tagged notes) as done. Refreshed the tag summary, and tada! All my to-dos are gone. What the f?
…now you don’t!
Is it how it’s supposed to work? Marking a single to-do as done marks the whole group? What’s happening here, can anyone enlighten me?
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I happen to love one Microsoft product – OneNote.
OneNote is a brilliant note-taking program that offers a bunch of useful features to the organized and the not-so-organized like me.
I use it mainly at work – especially when conducting design research or inspiration. I surf the web, find great websites and clip to OneNote everything that strikes my fancy – it’s perfect for creating moodboards. I love the fact that you don’t need to insert data into it in a linear way – paste things wherever you want and you’re good to go.
Design research in OneNote
The only thing that bugs me is that I haven’t yet found a way to create to-do lists that makes completed tasks automatically turn gray.
Task management and todos
I want this thing for the Mac too – it’s one powerhouse of note-taking and scrapbooking. I guess it would replace my personal information manager (currently SohoNotes) too.
Ever heard of a similar application for Mac OS? Do share!
UPDATE: I just recently stumbled upon a fantastic app full of OneNote features for Mac OS X, called Curio. This app does what OneNote does and much more, so give it a shot! I’m kinda convinced.
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