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FlairBuilder is on sale for December. Get your copy now!

December 12, 2009

Hello everyone,
A quick note to let you know that FlairBuilder is 20% off for the entire month of December. I know that this month there’s lots of shopping to do, so a few bucks less will help you buy something nicer for friends and family.
Consider this as being my little present for all those [...]

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FlairBuilder 1.7.7 – Now with explicit feedback request

December 10, 2009

Hello there,
The past two weeks got me working hard on figuring out a better way to stay in touch with those of you using FlairBuilder daily, weekly, seasonally or once in a life time. As with any piece of software, there are many cases where you download an application try it for a few minutes [...]

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FlairBuilder 1.7.6 for a long awaited bug fix.

November 30, 2009

Hi there,
This week start brings a long awaited fix for FlairBuilder. Quite a few people have reported that copy/paste was not properly working on Mac OS X. This weekend I finally was able to track it down and fix it. I am so embarrassed for it taking so long but it’s finally fix and [...]

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8 Things Programmers Should Know About UI Design

November 24, 2009

In an ideal world, each big subject from the software development process would be handed to a specialized professional: UI designers, programmers, architects, database administrators etc. Unfortunately, this is not the case most of times. There a plenty of cases out there where projects suffer from lack of proper expertise and well trained people. That’s not to [...]

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Import from Balsamiq Mockups, Shapes and more

November 18, 2009

Hi there,
It’s been two weeks already from latest release. Although last week I haven’t made a release, due to my trip to European Software Conference in Berlin, this week we have some very, and I really mean very exciting updates.
Something that has been announced previously in the “Coming soon…” section of the features page, well, [...]

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Basic Steps Towards Effective Prototyping

November 12, 2009

Hi there,
Something that I wanted to write about since a while now is a sort of introduction into the process of prototyping. A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about the reasons for which you should be prototyping. And since that article proved to be a popular one, it’s only natural for me [...]

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Small Release: Snap to Grid and Bug Fixes

November 4, 2009

Hi there,
This week I will be heading for Berlin for this annual European Conference of Software. I am very excited about it. There are very interesting peoples and talks in the agenda and I will surely have a lot to learn.
That’s why I didn’t want to put too much into this week release, just to [...]

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8 Reasons Why You Should Be Prototyping

October 30, 2009

Hi there! Here’s a Friday blog post that I put together, you know, to clear up some thoughts about prototyping and what it means to software development. I came up with 8 reasons why prototyping helps. Seven reasons are mine and one it’s your to add. So, here they are!
1. We speak different [...]

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Release: Mouse enter/out, Import from Clipboard

October 29, 2009

Hello again, everyone!
This week release brings a few very exciting and handy updates to your beloved prototyping tool.
More mouse events
You are now able to attach Mouse over and Mouse out events to components like Image, Icon, Button, Rectangle and Pointy Rectangle. This opens the door for prototyping even more features, such as drop-down [...]

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Feature Highlight: Interactive Prototyping

October 21, 2009

Hello everyone,
I said to myself that it will not harm anyone if I just step back a bit and take a look to some of the features that make FlairBuilder different. And the first thing that came into my mind was interactivity, something that I feel it makes FlairBuilder a capable prototyping tool.
There are many [...]

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