[python-uk] RE: User interface prototyping tools

[Tim Diggins]

Thanks all for the useful/interesting responses. 

There's an interesting variety of python-based approaches to follow up. I'll
post to the list if/when I've found the holy grail...

best

Tim


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> [mailto:python-uk-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Alan James Salmoni
> Sent: 05 February 2004 21:20
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> Subject: [python-uk] RE: User interface prototyping tools
> 
> 
> > Also (while I'm in the flow of asking questions), I'm 
> scrabbling around for
> > a replacement UI simulation-building (prototyping) tool (I'm a
> > UI/Interaction designer most of the time and I've am 
> dissatisfied by my
> > previous and current tools (Director, Photoshop, 
> Illustrator, Powerpoint,
> > and hand-rolling various programmatic solutions) and was 
> wondering whether
> > anyone had any pointers on papers or reviews of 
> python-based prototyping /
> > rapid development frameworks - (like 
> BoaConstructor/Pype/PythonCard) so I
> > can balance them against the graphical-ease / 
> designer-focus of things like
> > Flash (or Norpath Studio Elements, or Director for that matter).
> > (Ultimately
> > I'm looking for a protoyping holy grail, but at least I 
> know that). Any
> > pointers or comments useful.
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> This may seem like a curious answer, but there is a PyGame 
> "extra" called
> Pyzzle (http://pyzzle.sourceforge.net/). What this does is 
> allow people to
> write games (using Python, natch) like Myst and Riven. You 
> can incorporate
> graphics, videos, sounds, have mouse hotspots and so on, but 
> I think it could
> be an enormously powerful tool for UI design. I recommend 
> downloading the
> demo game to give it a whirl, then just imagine the graphics 
> of the room
> replaced with a prototype interface.
> 
> I haven't looked in detail at the programming side of things, 
> but it seems to
> be quite straightforward Python stuff, though a RAD designer 
> would make it
> quite powerful indeed. Of course, UI design is not what it 
> was designed for,
> but hey, if it works?
> 
> Alan.
> 
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