Dear JustProto fans and users!
It’s been a while since our last post. We sincerely apologize for this, but we were extremely loaded with lots of running projects and what’s the most important – improving JustProto.
Today, we release a new, upgraded 1.5 JustProto version with several remarkable changes.
- We made JustProto application significantly faster – you can especially notice that, while composing project full to the brim with many different elements. It’s beceause we used mootools 1.22 instead of mootools 1.11. Now, your browser is immortal!:)
- Enhanced Page Navigator
| How was it previously? when you duplicated a page it was at the end of pages list.
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And now? duplicated page appears under the original one.
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- Now you can easily add a color to swatch. You can also set any color using RGB (hex) code.
- Multiselection is improved!
Selected items can be moved all together!
- We finally removed annoying master bug: one of our users has reported that while switching between the masters without saving page, the master didn’t appear. Now, everything works fine.
Hope you will find those changes usefull!
We are optimistically looking forward to another upgrades! Our wish list contains:
- exporting projects to zip archive
- increasing number of ready-to-use elements!
- sticky notes
Stay tuned!
3 Comments
Well, pictures look like real Axure, but it’s VERY disappointing that you ask me to fill up enormous sign-up form (including my email) just for getting a touch of your online app. This is a big stumble block on a way of conversion.
It’s understood I need to set an identity to use some features, but my first concern is look’n'feel, not saving results or group work…
maybe these links could show the ways for improvement:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/06/design-to-sell-12-tips-to-help-your-website-convert/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/13/7-more-useful-tips-to-help-your-site-convert/
Best,
Boris
I’m just another JustProto new user (from the last week or two) and I work in online marketing, so Boris’ complaint interested me. I went through the signup process again just to see and I have to say that it’s not particularly bad given that it’s a hosted application. It’s quite common to balance the needs of collecting user data with the need for brevity. Surely, though, making name, email, username, country and password mandatory isn’t really much to ask. My position if I were offering a hosted online application would be that any user not willing to fill out 5 fields to try it out would probably be more trouble than he or she is worth once they’re using the app.
Can anyone think of a hosted workflow application that doesn’t require this data? Freshbooks, BaseCamp, ActivCollab, Harvest – they all require this or more.
I might make the application a little friendlier, but at this point I think the product should be the focus. It’s fantastic so far, by the way. Everything I liked about Axure without the headache of being tied to an installed application.
Cheers!
Thank you for the suggestions, we’ll take them all under consideration. Probably, we’ll simplify registration form in near future. If you have any questions feel free to contact us using contact form on our main site.