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I Heart Balsamiq Mockups

Posted on October 5, 2008

This post is a little info on how I went about coming up with a design for a winform app I'm building.

OK.  I still use paper.  This is what I started with today(very bad quality photo of paper):

Although simple, it took me awhile to figure out where to start on the UI.  Once this was on paper, I had a better idea of where I wanted to start with Balsamiq Mockups.  After a pretty short amount of time(like maybe 30 minutes), I came up with this(click to enlarge):

Balsamiq Mockups

I spent very little time in the winform designer once i mocked up what I wanted. I ended up with this as a first cut: