Pencil is awesome. It is my goto prototyping and wireframing tool. I honestly like it better than the other tools with price tags that I've used out there. Somehow it seems noone knows about this, but its doing for mockups/wireframing what Blender does for 3D artists - providing a high quality open source tool that is usable by industry professionals. I hope pencil and their devs get more recognition / funding.
using it and thinking about contributing it for long.
The team did really ambitious work of dumping XUL and rewriting it in Javascript + HTML. I was one of the first user of new version since they hosted in gitlab , i was astonished that they did the conversion from XUL within just around a month and already working since then.
I had used Balsamiq to design the forms/screens for a SaaS project for a client (collaboratively with them), and it was not bad. IIRC, response was a little laggy, which might have been because it was built using Adobe AIR (not sure). (I got a free copy of it from Peldi under their scheme for people who develop free / open source software projects.)<p>Has anyone tried Axure (paid product), and if so, how did you find it? Another client that I did a project for, had claimed it was good, when I told him I use Balsamiq.
Hey everyone! Vim Girl here. I've just created a demo of Pencil! If you are interested in seeing how pencil works I built a simple page: <a href="https://youtu.be/KTcYMvENb0k" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/KTcYMvENb0k</a>
Pencil has many higher-res stencils now, but I prefer the old ones that actually look like Pencil drawings.<p>I have also given this to clients, to have them draw their own UI concepts (as a starting position / way of communicating) with good results.
Love pencil and started looking to contribute late last year. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to build properly on MacOS. As a result I couldn't get anything to run, and with practically no documentation at the time I eventually moved on. Hopefully the situation has improved over the year. I'll give it another go soon and see what can be done.
apps made with i-cant-learn-the-proper-language-so-i-just-use-one-thats-not-made-for-the-job always feel and perform very badly. at least for me.<p>i mean they call out performance issues right in the first paragraph in the readme.<p>terrible world of half-assed pseudo-native applications.
<a href="http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil" rel="nofollow">http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil</a>
<a href="https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/</a><p>Kind of already an established name in the Apple world.