Maqetta

April 20 2011

…is an HTML5 in-browser WYSIWYG editor developed by IBM and Dojo Foundation. Designed specifically for User Experience designers. Open-source and all. Time to ditch your Flash and Dreamweaver, boys and girls. Maqetta.org

Maqetta features include:

  • a WYSIWYG visual page editor for drawing out user interfaces;
  • a drag/drop mobile UI authoring within an exact-dimension device silhouette, such as the silhouette of an iPhone;
  • simultaneous editing in either design or source views;
  • deep support for CSS styling (the application includes a full CSS parser/modeler);
  • a mechanism for organizing a UI prototype into a series of “application states” (aka “screens” or “panels”), which allows a UI design to define interactivity without programming;
  • a Web-based review and commenting feature where the author can submit a live UI mock-up for review by his team members;
  • a “wire-framing” feature that allows UI designers to create UI proposals that have a hand-drawn look;
  • a theme editor for customizing the visual styling of a collection of widgets;
  • export options that allow for smooth hand-off of the UI mock-ups into leading developer tools such as Eclipse; and
  • its code base has a toolkit-independent architecture that allows for plugging in arbitrary widget libraries and CSS themes.

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