It’s time to replace your mockup tool with rapid prototyping

Can you mockup tool do this? [via Maxa blog]

Copying an entire screen to another project

As a business analyst I am making prototypes for the a new project in Tiggr. Like many other projects, this one has a public and admin parts. I created a prototype for the public portion of the application, implying that this functionality would be available for all logged in users, however the customer corrected me and noted that it would be available for admin users only. I have two Tiggr projects: admin part and public part of the site so I tried to just copy from “public” part and paste to admin part with no luck! I got puzzled and wondered how I could do that. Here is the solution I would like to share.

The solution is quite simple.

1. Open the project where you have the screen that you want to move to another project.

2. Navigate to Project>Clipboard Import/Export menu to open the Local Import/Export dialog. In the dialog click Export.

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New mobile control in Tiggr prototypes: collapsible block

Last week we pushed Tiggr version 1.2.4. Besides bug fixing, we added a new mobile control: Collapsible Block. You can place any other controls inside and the block is collapsible in design as well as in Web Preview. See how it actually looks in a browser (try to expand/collapse the block).

Tiggr prototypes review by analyst.by

English version, Russian version (original).

Two new jQuery Mobile based components in Tiggr prototypes

With Tiggr 1.2.3 release this week, we have added two new mobile components based on jQuery Mobile. The two components are Navigation Bar and Search Bar. They are the last two components in this screen shot:

To switch between Web and Mobile prototypes, click anywhere in the whiteboard and in Properties view select the screen type:

Quickly align any number of controls in your prototype

Let’s say you start with a prototype and drag and drop a number of controls on to a screen:

Now you need to align all controls. One way is to take each control and align it, but that’s too much work. In Tiggr, you can quickly align any number of controls. With the mouse select the controls and then select Align from the menu at the top and pick your option:

Selecting Align Right:

Update to Tiggr collaboration - now works behind any firewall

After a major 1.2 release which included mobile palette based on jQuery Mobile components, we pushed a minor 1.2.2 update mostly with bug fixing and other improvements. One important update in 1.2.2 is that collaboration now works behind any firewall. Before this release, Tiggr used a port other than 80 for collaboration. We heard from users who are behind a firewall that collaboration just didn’t work for them. We updated Tiggr collaboration to work with port 80 so now everyone will have this feature working. Give it a try and let us know what you think.