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A comment on Ask HN: Review our Startup: Wireframing via Recognition (video).

Re:Ask HN: Review our Startup: Wireframing via Recognition (... by jaysonelliot on Thursday January 26, 2012 @07:20PM (#3516634)
I've been doing UX for fifteen years, and I feel like I've tried every software solution, but nothing beats paper for concepting. My wireframing tools end up being used for documenting ideas, but they're terrible when you're generating ideas.

The problems in this video are exactly the problems I face.

The only place I had a problem with the solution was the idea that drawing on a tablet is the same as drawing on paper. For me, it's just not. My dream solution would let me draw on paper to begin with.

That said, the solution here still looks better than trying to develop ideas in Visio/Omnigraffle/Axure/InDesign/Keynote/whatever by orders of magnitude.

I'm very excited to try this out.

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Re:Ask HN: Review our Startup: Wireframing via Recognition (... by twanschik on Thursday January 26, 2012 @07:28PM (#3516663)
On our Bamboo tablet the feeling is a lot better than on a iPad for example. But we're optimistic about iPad and Android tablets getting closer to the paper feeling.
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Re:Ask HN: Review our Startup: Wireframing via Recognition (... by gotrythis on Friday January 27, 2012 @12:05AM (#3517212)
Your comment got me searching and I found this:

http://adonit.net/product/jot-touch/

Looks pretty darn close to feeling like paper. Pressure sensitivity doesn't matter for your app, but their other stylus options are fast and accurate too.

Any chance your app will work on my touchpad?

[EDIT] They also have JotStudio coming out. The app works with the pen and "overwrites the default finger offset, giving you 100% accuracy with the world's most accurate stylus."

They have an SDK so you can also support their pen. Sigh, I guess I need to buy an iPad3.

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Re:Ask HN: Review our Startup: Wireframing via Recognition (... by johannesd on Friday January 27, 2012 @07:27AM (#3518016)
We really want to make pentotype offer an experience like on paper, so we also keep an eye on pens that improve the drawing accuracy.

Do you mean an HP Touch Pad? We don't have one, so we cannot say anything about that currently. It depends on its JavaScript and Canvas performance in the browser.

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