做軟件產(chǎn)品設(shè)計時經(jīng)常會涉及到原型設(shè)計，用紙筆畫廢紙，用Visio畫廢勁。而且今年產(chǎn)品要做大的調(diào)整與換代，原型設(shè)計更為棘手，決定花力氣找一款得心應(yīng)手的原型設(shè)計工具，而 “ Balsamiq Mockups ”讓我眼前一亮！迫不急待，進(jìn)行了一翻在線試用，呵！對于軟件原型構(gòu)造來說，可真是“隨心所欲、信手拈來”，中肯的說比紙和筆更為方便。

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網(wǎng)址： http://www.balsamiq.com/ 

在線演示地址： http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups

試用網(wǎng)址： http://www.balsamiq.com/demos/mockups/Mockups.html

整體截圖：

 

功能和亮點：

1. 操作方面：拖拽，控件分組，甚至元素之間的對齊都做得很到位；
2. 預(yù)制了六十多個界面元素，從簡單的輸入框，下拉框，到經(jīng)常用得到的導(dǎo)航條，日歷，表格，到復(fù)雜的Tag Cloud，Cover Flow, 地圖，WYSWYG的格式工具欄等，有了這些不用從頭畫起，其實比用白板都快；
3. 界面元素的修改很簡單，比如導(dǎo)航條的幾個標(biāo)簽頁的label，就是用逗號分隔的文字，下拉框的選項就是分行的文字；
4. 使用xml語言來記錄和保存界面元素和布局，從而使其能夠快速的導(dǎo)入到你所需的任何一個項目中，或其他工具中。
5. 可以將設(shè)計導(dǎo)出成PNG格式的圖片；
6. 隨著使用的熟練，快捷鍵便派上用場，超過一半的元素均有快捷方式，這更有助于原型的快速構(gòu)造，幾乎幾分鐘便可實現(xiàn)一個滿意的而復(fù)雜的原型設(shè)計；
7. 跨平臺，Balsamiq Mokups是用Flex和Air實現(xiàn)的，所以在Mac OS, Linux和Windows下都能使用；
8. 不僅僅有桌面版本，還有能集成在Confluence，JIRA，和XWiki中的版本，使得異地在線協(xié)作更方便有效；

  

 

這么好的一款軟件是不是免費的呢？當(dāng)然不是，但是軟件的作者有N多種方式讓你得到free license 的方法。

To get a free license key, you can do one of the following:

• If your company bought Mockups for Confluence, JIRA or XWiki, ask your IT admin for your company's license information and use it FREE of charge.
• If you are a do-gooder of any sort (non-profit, charity, open-source contributor, you get the idea), email Mariah with a short blurb and she'll send you a license, FREE of charge.
• If you are a blogger / journalist / maven willing to write us up (honest reviews are the most useful to us) email Mariah a short blurb with the link to your blog and she'll send you a license, FREE of charge, so that you can evaluate Mockups properly.
• If you are willing to demo Mockups to an audience of at least 15 people (at a user group, a conference, a BarCamp), email Mariah your info and she'll give you two licenses, one for you to keep and one to give away at the event, FREE of charge.
• If you teach a high-school class, email Mariah the name of your school and your class, plus the number of students in your class. Mariah will send you a license for all of them.
• A note to university students and professors: we currently do not offer free licenses to universities, but we'll be happy to offer you an additional 50% off any orders of 10 or more licenses. Let us know if you're interested and we'll set up a discount code for you.

你做到以上的任何一條。你就可以得到免費的許可證了。
嘿嘿，終于暴露目的了…… 不過這么好的軟件，不推薦一下也實在說不過去。