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> The visual "draft" effect encouraged dialog That sounds similar to the reasoning behind Balsamiq Mockups and other wire-framing/diagramming tools that look i
by jared314 13y ago
> The visual "draft" effect encouraged dialog
That sounds similar to the reasoning behind Balsamiq Mockups and other wire-framing/diagramming tools that look intentionally "crude".
- specialist 13y agoAbsolutely. It's something cognitive. The mind is more creative when there's blanks to fill in. I played around a bit to see if I could style HTML+CSS to look sketch / toon / hand drawn. Precisely what I thought Balsamiq was doing. Wouldn't that be awesome? Alas, I didn't get very far. I chopped a hand drawn box into 9 GIFs (upper left, upper middle, upper right, ... lower right) and attached them to a DIV. A lot of work. And the long edges could only be stretched, vs repeated. And I couldn't fathom a way to "owner draw" (old Win32 dev here, sorry) other widgets like dropdowns and scrollbars. If there was a way to access each widget's vectors, then a hand drawn style is totally feasible. Perhaps once zoomable UIs become common place.
- michaelbuddy 13y agosvg might help you there, inkscape has a jitter filter. It creates more vector nodes, but it would display on a webpage and is open format like html