Michael's dashboard

A comment on the question "Presentation mode..." in Balsamiq:

I was excited to see this but it's still missing an important thing, which is to also hide the huge hand when you hover over the links. Can't we make that happen too? – Michael, on May 06, 2009 12:48

Michael replied on May 05, 2009 15:45 to the question "Presentation mode..." in Balsamiq:

Peldi,
Not sure what you mean by blue area.

This is what is needed for it to be useful in presentation mode:
- a plain cursor
- no hotspot on link hover (blue hand)
- no little blue arrow hints in presentation mode

I realize though some will want these feature and some will not. So ideally a way to shut them on/off.

A comment on the question "Presentation mode..." in Balsamiq:

Peldi,
How quickly could we get this? The current implementation is unusable for some, and there is an upcoming usability event happening at our company, We would love to use mockups. – Michael, on May 04, 2009 00:53

A comment on the question "Presentation mode..." in Balsamiq:

My only concern is what happens if the UI you want to show is in the lower right corner? Perhaps the hotspot can be much smaller than the control size. – Michael, on April 30, 2009 16:47

Michael replied on April 28, 2009 19:55 to the idea "Linking blue boxes & arrows overwhelming?" in Balsamiq:

http://getsatisfaction.com/balsamiq/t...

Michael replied on April 28, 2009 19:53 to the idea "Diagnal Line." in Balsamiq:

Why not use the arrow UI control? You can turn off the end and set the curvature to none.

Michael replied on April 24, 2009 11:53 to the idea "Vector Image Box" in Balsamiq:

I see this too. Perhaps I misunderstood the change. I often need to resize an imported image. When I do, the image really degrades.

Michael replied on April 24, 2009 11:45 to the idea "Vector Image Box" in Balsamiq:

I was excited to see this thread, but when I tried it I noticed no difference when resizing the image. It looks bad and all pixelated.

Michael replied on April 22, 2009 13:36 to the question "Presentation mode..." in Balsamiq:

The Big Ass Pointer causes me issue as its so big it covers up a lot of UI.

Michael replied on April 22, 2009 13:32 to the question "Presentation mode..." in Balsamiq:

BAP? What is that?

Michael replied on April 22, 2009 13:23 to the question "Presentation mode..." in Balsamiq:

If I'm being real honest here - I am not crazy about the big pointer arrow and the huge blue finger that you get when you hover. If I had my wishes:

- Use a smaller regular pointer in presentation mode
- Do not use the pointer facing towards the center
- Make the hand on links to look more regular
- Option to hide the arrow hints
- Create a separate special control to be used for linking. Would be same as rectangle area that is transparent and no border.

Michael replied on April 22, 2009 11:09 to the question "Presentation mode..." in Balsamiq:

I would like this too, but it should be optional. For Usability testing in front of users, I don't want to hint to them where they need to click.

Michael replied on April 22, 2009 11:07 to the question "Android UI elements" in Balsamiq:

To save us all a step, can you post some screens of the widgets you would like to see added?

Michael replied on April 02, 2009 13:51 to the idea "How to determine selected control type?" in Balsamiq:

Are you sure it's CTRL+SHIFT+E? On my system that is import!

Michael replied on April 02, 2009 11:12 to the idea "Text formatting helper" in Balsamiq:

I think this could work, but is there any chance to only display the applicable text formats based on the component?

Michael replied on April 02, 2009 11:11 to the idea "Link Bar with only one link" in Balsamiq:

Yes - I know there is a workaround. It's ok - its just that was using this component in other places and in just one case, the link bar used only one link. The extra text (...) surprised me.

Michael replied on April 01, 2009 20:27 to the idea "How to determine selected control type?" in Balsamiq:

I have thought of this too and one way I propose to solve it is to have the title of the property panel state the type of control.

Michael replied on March 31, 2009 00:59 to the question "Can I add an icon to a grid?" in Balsamiq:

I had written a nice enhancement request to this a while back:

http://www.getsatisfaction.com/balsam...

Michael shared an idea in Balsamiq on March 29, 2009 11:55:

Text formatting helper

I have posted in this idea before, but perhaps it was too confusing so let me try again:

Many of the UI controls now offer the ability to embed special formatting (links, checkboxes, options, etc) right inside the text. It's quite amazing capability.



However, many keep forgetting the syntax after you edit the control. I propose that when entering text, you can have a little combo box for quick access of compatible text formats. Clicking these will insert the corresponding text.



As you can see above, right when your editing your text you have quick access to the formatting that is available for you to use in your UI component.

Michael shared an idea in Balsamiq on March 29, 2009 11:22:

Link Bar with only one link

First of all, I like using the UI components the way they were intended to be used. So when I needed to mockups a tabbed navagation UI with sub navigation, I naturally used the Tab Bar and Link Bar.



However I was perplexed that in one of my cases, I entered only one item in the Link Bar. But look what happens.