Wire Frame / UI Sketching and Grid Tools

Since New Years, I have found and employed some new tools to speed-up the design phase of our firms design-build process.

GRIDS

Grid Designer 2 :

In an effort to speed up and play with the gird layout an elements, I found a joy of a tool online. Grid Designer 2 (http://grid.mindplay.dk) is nothing short of an amazing tool, rather tool set. You can quickly play and adjust you grid to need, toss in some typography needs, and the pack it all out in html and css that get you off an running.

Boks:

This is a new find ( about a week ago) this is an Adobe Air application ( so far only the second one I found useful to me) That seems to operate much like Grid Designer 2, so so far I am not as impressed, but I have only had a few interaction with it an seems it has some potential as well. (http://toki-woki.net/p/Boks/)

WIRE FRAME / UI SKETCHING

IPlotz:

This is a supper nice high-end, simple and easy to use, wire-frame online tool. A tad pricey but the free account will let you mock up five pages for small task or sites. (http://iplotz.com/)

Creately:

Still in beta but it’s got more potential than Iplotz and has alot more to it from charting to layouts and UI wire frames ( with data behind it for building working wire frame models). I am still just getting time to play with it and the more i do the more I love it. It has powerful simple to use collaboration tool that make team coordination a snap. We are seriously loving this new online tool. This is a tool that can speed-up a lotof stuff while making our team much more colabratve with more than task than we currently are. (http://creately.com/)

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