We are being limited by the names we give to specific objects and tools. We are being limited by our habits. We are being limited by habits of other people. And we are being limited by our own usual ways of using certain tools.

For example: what you can do with a hammer? First thing that comes to mind: hit the nails with it of course! What a stupid question?! But as you keep thinking you can find different ways of using a hammer. You can hit nails with it but you can take them out of wooden boards as well. Or you can kill someone with this tool. Everything depends on current needs.

I know that you may be thinking  prototyping / wireframing tool  is only for wireframing or prototyping. Period. Today I want to show you a little alternative way of using JustProto. How? See below.

Product Retrospect.

Product Retrospect is a simple yet effective way of summary after the project’s closed. You gather the whole team and discuss every pro and con that’s project related. You don’t point fingers saying “You screwed this up by not talking to me earlier” but say “This was badly executed due to lack of communication”. Sometimes when your team is spread all over the world it’s extremely difficult to do this kind of project retrospective – time difference and gathering everyone on the same page is hard. JustProto’s collaborative features come in handy in this time of need:

• Multiple Collaborators,
• Real-Time Collaboration,
• Chat,
• Project Preview with just One Link,
• Live Preview.

How it works?

Each JustProto account have an Administrator/Owner, who can grant access to others – The Collaborators. Each Collaborator gets his unique login and password to login to the project at a certain time. Using nothing else but computer with Internet access everyone edit the same project at the same time and everyone see all changes in the real time (that’s the Real-Time Collaboration).Kinda like on Google Docs while editing the same spreadsheet or word document.

Each person choses note, tag or pin color they like and that’s that – by editing its text Collaborators – The Team add their point of view on a closed project. What is important – everyone can talk on a project Chat. Smart history will save all the conversations. This way everyone’s up to date even if the Internet connection dies: Chat history and current version of the retrospective is saved and always available online.

This is en example of project retrospective in JustProto

  This is another example of project retrospective in JustProto

Any person who is not on the project team but gets the Preview Link will see the retrospective project. Let’s say your boss is not one of your project team but you’d like him to know the results of the retrospective – send him a Preview Link and that’s that!

What’s even more fun and handy and cool – if a person who get the Preview Link will open it while you and your team edit the notes, they will see everything in the real time too thanks to Realtime Preview! How the project retrospective can all look like? See here.

This example shows that you don’t ALWAYS need to stick to the tool’s purpose. Don’t be limited, try thinking of other ways you can use the tools you like : ) What it also shows is the fact that wireframing tool can be helpful not only while design happen – it can also become pretty useful after the project is done. Remember that the tool is just a hammer. You don’t need to see nails everywhere.

Check new feature at work yourself here. Have fun!

See for yourself what was the thing Sleepy (icanfinally@sleepagain.com) wrote:

> man, i don’t think i’ve ever seen such a boring demo video. I guess i
> shoulda seen it coming after navigating through your 1998-style website.
> Both are just chalk-full of stock photography and monochromatic dialogue.

thank you for your precious feedback. You’re probably right, but
well… in the end it’s all the matter of taste. E.g. my grandmother
love it!

> Thank you for curing my insomnia!

You’re welcome! We are here to help people. We usually help people to
picture their ideas, prepare the project and make a good website
prototype. Curing insomnia is the new one. If you think there are
more people who can cure their insomnia with our demo, please
recommend us. It’s all about making world better, isn’t it?

We’re always happy to help!

Now seriously for a while: we’re in a process of a redesigning our webpage. If anyone, like Sleepy, have any idea you think we can use – just drop us a line at support[at]justproto.com

Why to use JustProto? (according to the tournament results)

• Customize interface with company logo
• Auto save
• Nice set of social icons, iab standard ads, and iphone/ipad/android tools
• Collaboration and co-edit ability
• Allows Components page templates
• Simple prototyping ability
• Rulers and grid with pixel increments
• Easy edit of size, shape, color, border, etc of any item through properties tab

Wish us luck in next rounds!

See more here

..:: Your JustProto Team ::..