September 21, 2009

FlairBuilder 1.7.0 Beta – I need your feedback!

Filed under: Blog — Tags: — Cristian Pascu @ 11:21 am
Update: FlairBuilder 1.7.0 was actually released since this blog post. Here’s the official announcement.

That day has come. After many, many, so many hours and days of hard and punctilious work, here you have it: FlairBuilder 1.7.0 Beta. :-) Be the first one to get it while is fresh and hot!

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Why a Beta version? For several reasons.

1. The user interface has been dramatically changed. It’s you that have to decide that it’s an improvement.

2. A brand new theme has been added that allows you to do sketch-like interactive wireframes/prototypes.

3. FlairBuilder lets you now better organize your wireframe pages in folders and subfolders. :-) I know many of you will be very excited about this. Beside that, I merged the master functionality into the pages management feature such that, now, every page can be a master to another page. Thus you can have as many levels of masters as you need. There is a lot to say about the potential of feature, so I will let you imagination do a little bit of work first before a speak my mind in one of the next posts.

These are at least the three important reasons for which I will take a short period of time to do some beta testing with those of you that will have the pleasure to give this version a quick try.

Allow me to say that FlairBuilder is now officially the first and only prototyping tool to support hand-drawn look’n'feel for interactive widgets. Don’t get me wrong, sketch stencils have been available for tools like OmniGraffle or Visio, and Java Swing had this simply genius Napkin look’n'feel. But while the first are for static wireframes, the second hasn’t a dedicated prototyping tool accessible to non-developers. Prove me wrong. :-)

I won’t get into details about what is new in this version (nothing significant has changed in the core functionality). The improvements flow will regain its track right after this big UI layout update.

Unknown, here I come!

What people say about FlairBuilder Read more →

  • “What I love about Flairbuilder is that everything is right there in front of you and it’s SUPER easy to use.”

    Ian N. Gadson Ian N. Gadson

  • “It’s very user friendly, so far the best wireframing tool I’ve ever seen.”

    Kerem Suer Kerem Suer

  • “As a Web Designer, I think that Flair Builder will revolutionize the way we do wireframes for our projects.”

    Aljiro’s Design Blog Aljiro’s Design Blog

  • “We recently purchased FlairBuilder and we have used it for a couple of presentations to potential customers and it has worked great.”

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  • Fantastic product. Everyone at my office loves to work with FlairBuilder. And we’ve tried them all. FlairBuilder is intuitive, flexible and clients love seeing functional live demonstrations before a single line of code is ever written.

    JonLefave Jon Lefave

  • “I like it a lot! Every element for a wireframe is right there, in the program. I don’t have to draw out stuff myself like in Illustrator.”

    Morten Hauge Morten Hauge

  • “Quick, easy to use, intuitive.”

    Andrew Regiec Andrew Regiec

  • “I have just started to play with FlairBuilder and I’m already blown away! Sure, [brand X] is cool and free, but FlairBuilder is amazing!”

    Daniel Lewis Daniel Lewisthe Ramen Noodle

  • “I have been working and playing around with FlairBuilder and I’m very impressed, after a long search with many wireframe apps.”

    Maurice Maurice

  • “Came across by far the best wireframing tool yet.”

    Paul Boag Paul BoagHeadscape

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