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Uxbox – The open-source prototyping tool

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Looks very similar to another open-source prototyping tool:

http://pencil.evolus.vn/

pencil kicks ass, blows omnigraffle out of the water and you don't have to find with omnigraffle every few weeks when they do an update and claim again that your license is invalid or pirated!

And funny, just did a search and found a cracked copy in under a minute. Looks like that DRM really works...

It's like the "pls no pirate" messages on DVDs that pirates never see.

For what it's worth, I'll share my counter-anecdote.

I've never once had a license problem with Omnigraffle and I've been a paying customer for 10+ years.

Can I please just test it without having to sign-in? If it's browser based there's really no excuse no to load it up immediately and let people explore it first.

If there is no demo, there's no way I'm playing with it. Period.

They are targeting a sophisticated userbase. They aren’t fooling their target market into giving emails without trying it out first.

Too many companies use emails as a metric over sales. Selling someone after the fact is much harder and no VC is caring about email only signup numbers.

Pretty cool that it's written in clojure https://github.com/uxbox/uxbox

Yes, though I wonder how it will affect the ability of others to contribute to the project. The upside to, say, C++ is that tons of people can contribute.

Question to HN: is there any UI prototyping / wireframing tool out there than can handle a pen/stylus, the kind of Surface tablets and similar devices come with? I've recently got a Windows device with a pen and I would really love to use it for that purpose. I've tested several web and desktop solutions, and none of them could handle it in any useful way.

Is this still actively worked on? Site is copyrighted 2017, and the Twitter account also seems to be silent since June 2017.

I see activity on their GitHub from less than a month ago: https://github.com/uxbox/uxbox/tree/develop

This is something I don't really understand about the open source community. If something's not being worked on right now then it's seen as useless, regardless of the current state of it.

There are plenty of libraries, utilities etc. that haven't seen an update in years, because they're done and there's nothing more to add or take away.

I'm running a UI/UX design firm for B2B software companies and we use Sketch, XD & Invision on a daily basis. (And constantly trying out new ones to see which improve our process). Would love to somehow collaborate and help take this product to the next level, since we'd be helping out to build the tool we ourselves want to use. Not sure how to get in contact, so please find my contact details in my bio.

I'd recommend getting in touch through their Github page, where the project is hosted and developed. Open an issue or submit your first pull request.

Is there more here than "coming soon"?

Looks like the demo has bugs (https://i.imgur.com/cSgIlWs.png). Clicking on the "icons" icon doesn't show anything, but the readme picture (https://github.com/uxbox/uxbox/tree/develop#uxbox) clearly shows that it should open in the bottom left sidebar.

I would have followed the project if it was more active, but no commits in 21 days for master branch, 28 days for develop branch and a diff of 246 commits between the 2 branches leaves me perplexed.

Site links to the official SVG spec. Does anyone else find it disturbing, that on the official W3C SVG website there is an announcement for a conference in 2016?

what does it DO? Like... you can't tell unless you sign up. All i know is that it generates SVGs and somehow this is related to creating prototypes.

This makes for a brilliant alternative to Figma. Kudos to the author for building this.

How so? It already says it's in "development" stage, while Figma is a far more mature tool.

The website doesn't even list the features of the tool. "Wireframing" is very broad. You can create wireframes in PowerPoint if you need to. Other functionality, like generating a clickable multi-screen prototype that can be loaded on a mobile device or shared with a client, that's more advanced functionality that's required for corporate design work.

With So many vc Money the Space, what is your ambition of making this oss ?

I didn't make it past the signup. Just wanted to have a look...

Also why not use standard identity providers?

Also, why not make your front page actually say something useful? There are lots of words, no real content. Also, the project tool seems to indicate it's been dead for 4 months?

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