EclecticGuy

Since moving my hosting provider last year, all of the links to the demo files for my post on Assembling Demos from balsamiq Mockups have been unavailable. I still get lots of requests for these files so I dug them out of my backup archives and reposted them! So, the links on the original pages should work now. If not, please let me know.

Also, I’ve included the actual demo I put together here: Shrugh and I’ve zipped all of the files including the balsamiq source and made it available here: BalsamiqDemosDemo.zip.

Hopefully that will help … Continue Reading

As I mentioned in the last Shrugh post, we’ve been getting a lot of great feedback and doing some brainstorming on Shrugh. Last time I described how users respond to shrughs. This time, I have a demo that shows the simplified shrugh creation process. It also has a couple of new bells and whistles – like how Shrugh automatically finds other shrughs similar to yours based on words in your shrugh and description.

My goal is to have this idea implemented in the next week … Continue Reading

My friend and UI guru Bob and I have been thinking about Shrugh. This collaboration has been really helpful and some good stuff has come out of it. As part of the initial discussion, I created a short demo on how a user responds to a shrugh that has been posted. You can see it here (and please leave feedback at the end). (This was, of course, created with balsamiq Mockups and my technique for making an … Continue Reading

As I make progress on Shrugh, I plan to capture the experience as I go. Last week I gave a status update on the Shrugh concept demo and feedback I’ve received. I’m still getting feedback (a good thing) but I have enough already on the concept and usability (collected on this Google Form) that I am ready to start exploring implementation.

As I mentioned in the last status update, I had done some prototyping in both … Continue Reading

First, I want to thank everyone for their feedback on Shrugh! The response has been great! I’ve been working on the demo (you may have seen several versions of it already) and now have a scripted demo that is reasonably complete. It shows how to create all 3 types of shrughs – Yes/No, List, and Pros & Cons. It also shows how you can tag and add notes to other Shrughie’s shrughs and follow Shrughies that you are interested in. Finally, the demo ends with … Continue Reading

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I’ve been thinking about the Shrugh feedback & review screens a bit more. There are 2 varieties of these – from the owner’s perspective and from Shrughies’ perspectives. If I can iron out the owner’s perspective first, I think the other will follow!
The basic use case is that the owner of the Shrugh needs to view the Shrugh results – either in progress or complete. … Continue Reading

I’ve cleaned up the Shrugh demo – thanks to everyone who emailed comments! I also end the demo by taking the user to a Google Form where they can leave feedback and comments. If you want to jump right to the form now (because you have already seen the demo), click Shrugh Feedback. If you want to see the updated demo, click here.

I am also considering using Google App Engine to develop and host Shrugh. I already know Python and there … Continue Reading

I’ve received lots of very positive feedback on my Assembling Demos from balsamiq Mockups posts. However, there have been a number of people asking “How do you know what the hotspot rectangle position and dimensions are?”.

To that, I have an answer: look at the Mockups generated XML file! Here is an example for a Button:

<control controlID=”23″ controlTypeID=”com.balsamiq.mockups::Button”
x=”139″ y=”393″ w=”82″ h=”-1″ zOrder=”6″ locked=”false” isInGroup=”-1″>
<controlProperties>
<text>Push%20Me</text>
</controlProperties>
</control>

It will have the x, y coordinates for the top left corner of each item on the Mockup. For many, it will have the width (w) and … Continue Reading

You talked, I listened! Here is a revamped info page and demo – www.shrugh.com. Let me know what you think by email info@shrug.com or tweeting @shrugh.

Well, overnight Shrugh.com and my blog post about it yesterday have climbed to the #1 and 3 spots on google! I haven’t even started adding the metatags in my HTML to make it even more visible by google. That’s part of my weekend project.