Ease of use

You just start MockupScreens and get to work. Interface is as intuitive and straight-forward as It could be. Every action can be done via keyboard shortcuts, which are consistent throughout the application. Each screen has context sensitive help, explaining in status bar the use of any action or element at all times. Screen elements and their parts are automaticaly resized and aligned to let the user focus on his goal instead of GUI design.

Productivity

With little or no experience you can draw 5 screens in 10 minutes! Each action can be invoked via keayboard. More advanced features don't clutter the interface. In addition to common screen elements (buttons, fields, lists, etc) there are "productivity" elements which you use to add and arange multiple elements at once (e.g. textfield with label, etc). Creating new screens from existing ones.

Approach

You create screens, add screen elements (buttons, text fields, grids, etc) and populate them (specify texts or data for complex elements). Screens are organized in scenarios. You then export a single screen, scenario or whole project to images you can use. MockupScreens purposefully avoid the possibility to be mistaken for the real application screens. Being "mock-ups", the screen elements are much simpler than screen elements from various GUI designers.

Features

• Intuitive and straight-forward interface, with consistent keyboard shortcuts, right-click shortcut menus and context sensitive help

• Common screen elements: form with menus, button, field, dropdown, text, multiline text, floating text, frame, checkbox, list, scrollbar, table, tab panes, tree

• "Productivity" screen elements: radio button group, labeled field, labeled dropdown, labeled list,

• “Web” screen elements: horizontal-line, web-browser look, predefined images, title and text link

• Export to images and/or html of any screen, scenario or whole project. GIF and JPEG image format support.

• Simple and quick specifying of texts and data for screen elements, including the complex elements, e.g. populating table with data

• Organize screens in scenarios, with screen thumbnails to manage the screens more easily.

• Define, move and resize screen elements with help of snap-to-grid and z-order, even transform elements from one type to another.

• Special colored “Mark” icons for pointing something on the mock-up: arrows, smileys, question and exclamation marks, numbers etc.

• On-screen comments that can be embedded on the image or exported as text

• Slideshow for previewing scenarios

• International character (Unicode) support, with import for the old files

For more information, check the latest MockupScreens press release.