Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 19:20:30 CDT 2012
In a fit of creativity (must be planet-alignment or something), I've suddenly got three ideas for apps. I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to sketch these ideas; the current tool is a pen and a notepad. What I do not want is any commitment to any platform. I know Access pretty well, for example, but I don't want to embed the design ideas there, I want them separate from any given platform and/or OS. All I want to think about is the UI, and the progression from this screen to that and then the next, and so on. It's been years since I fired up Visio, and I vaguely recall that it had some of the things I'm looking for, but that choice is already a commitment to Windows, which is precisely the sort of thing I want to avoid. I have a genuine reason for needing this. I think that I have stumbled upon a new idea for a UI and I need to be able to sketch it out in a RAP (rapid app prototyping) tool, somewhat more advanced than my current pen+paper device. It is not important that the tool deliver forms, etc.; it will be quite enough if it lets me sketch said forms and their progressions, without commitment to any language or platform. Those decisions can come much later in the game. Any suggestions for such a tool? TIA, Arthur