Re:Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
by mgliwka on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:33AM
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It's not abandoned, but actually active again:
There was a RC release of a rewrite in electron at the end of July, see here: http://pencil.evolus.vn/Next.html.
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Re:Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
by mch82 on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:05PM
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Awesome! Very excited to see this and looking forward to trying it out.
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the "sketchy" widgets that look hand drawn and the ability to easily link between layouts. Great for rapidly validating mobile app workflows with users!
Other than Marvel App (which companies uncomfortable with hosting design work in cloud services can't use), I've found Pencil to be the most productive UX-focused design tool out there. Every other tool seems to be UI-focused, but it's usually easier to prototype UI right in HTML5 once the UX workflow is well understood.
Re:Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
by benbristow on Monday November 07, 2016 @08:56AM
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Website looks very dated! Even the footer says '2012'.
Why would they use KDE screenshots as the main screenshots too. KDE looks awful IMHO.
Re:Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
by quadrangle on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:28AM
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KDE5 Breeze looks pretty nice actually, and KDE looks like anything because it is that adaptable, so it's not even sensible to assert an idea like "KDE looks awful" since there is no look KDE doesn't offer, so it can do awful or whatever you think is amazing.