Paul Sizemore

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Feb 9 / 11:49am

New IA Map using MindMeister

Today I got a twitter about a great new map at http://www.mindmeister.com/24358308/entrepreneurship-scene - it illustrates the Austin Entrepreneurship
Scene, and I decided to take a deviation from my MindJet to use MindMeister.


It's a typical bare necessities software, and that's nice to get work done quickly. I've shared the map, and emailed it off to the CMO. Let's see how it goes in the IA meeting.

Here's the new Smoothstone IA map:

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Dec 3 / 8:54am

Editing Broadsoft / Genband’s M6 CSS Files to customize the platform

 

BroadSoft /Genband’s M6 phone control portal offers different customization levels. You can easily update company logos and add a new CSS that can set new colors and fonts, but the real customizing is that the platform has an API and even a SDK available.

The best way to develop a custom CSS for the M6 platform is to use your favorite CSS Editor (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html or http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/)

Install FireFox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/).

Install Web Developer ToolBar (http://getfirebug.com/). This will allow you to specify a local CSS file to overwrite the M6 CSS while you are developing a new one.

Browse to the M6 Platform, then ‘View the CSS’ in the Web Developer Toolbar. Select all the CSS, and copy it into another CSS/text file and save it to your hard drive.

On the Web Developer Toolbar select “Disable Styles > Individual Style Sheet >.” This will disable the style sheet, and the page will lose colors and fonts.

On the Web Developer Toolbar select “Add User Style Sheet …” This will allow you to navigate to the location of the new CSS on your drive.

There is also an 'options.xml' file where you can specify a few settings, such as the link that the 'Powered by' logo follows.

Link to the Customization Guide

             
Click here to download:
m6-CSS-Edit.zip (372 KB)

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Dec 3 / 4:55am

Axure EXT JS Tabs Widget Library

On a cold and raining evening in Louisville, I finished this 
EXTJS Axure Tabs Widget Library and it 's ready for Download.

At least I'm toasty at home with two pairs of socks on. This Axure widget library is of the EXT JS tabs, just three sets of tabs right now. I might expand them as I need them, and add other libraries (will post on my blog). 

This set is great for prototyping for buy-in, then handing the specs off to a development team. The developer can see exactly what the client has bought into, and through the EXT JS framework, it can happen. 

EXT JS is a great User Interface framework for SaaS, and I've needed a good way to prototype software for users. 

 

Click here to download:
EXTJS-Tab.rplib (79 KB)

 

 

       
Click here to download:
2009-12-03_0210.zip (77 KB)

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Nov 7 / 9:10am

Axure iPhone UI elements widget / library download

Click here to download:
iPhone-Axure-Widgets.zip (1972 KB)

I've created a Axure RP iPhone widget library and you can download it below. The bulk of the work on this library was done one night while I was up late from the pure pain and agony from eating a Taco Tico taco - it was just one taco, and I wanted bragging rights. Taco Tico is a Louisville fast food Mexican joint, equivalent to the White Castle circa 1980.  The important thing I learned, don't eat things you think are dangerous simply to bond with other people, but I don't know if I'll be able to do it in the future. I'm a risk taker. Maybe a good fall-back is only eat part of it. Either way, I hope I never get sick like that again.

Anyway, I've been prototyping iPhone applications, and I really want to be able to do it in Axure RD; this will let me turn over the prototype to the stakeholder in a web browser. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any existing iPhone UI widgets that did do a good job of covering the common iPhone UI elements. Bingo, add Taco Tico, Axure, an iPhone and the result, a iPhone UI element library. 

First, I want to point to teehan+lax, the creators of the 'iPhone_GUI_3_0.psd' that I used for a large part of this widget. I also used Yahoo! UI elements and then created a few of them myself. 

The aim is to create a library of common iPhone User Interface patterns for me to use; sharing is the right thing to do. 

You can reach me, Paul, at Paul.Sizemore /at/ Gmail.com, but I would stay away from Taco Tico. 

 

 

 

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Nov 3 / 12:21pm

iPhone development and Axure

Axure has come a long way to reach 5 and half, or 5.5. Right now, the most important thing in my Axure universe, the thing I'm searching for, and looking to the horizon for, is more widgets. Widgets are 'libraries' that can be loaded into Axure. The best, and most thorough is the port of the Yahoo Design Stencil Kit, at Axure's site. 

This band wagon is just getting going, what I'm really looking forward to is more iPhone widgets and the onslaught of inevitable JQuery widgets, although I can see the Yahoo libraries making their way into a lot of my prototypes in the future. Some of the more fun widgets are the iPhone and the Form Elements. 

Another great set is at ConeTrees; they have a widget for touchscreen gestures, http://www.conetrees.com/content/downloads/ 

Moving on, there's a few widgets at GitHub including Audio, Photo, Video and Wordpress.

It does seem a bit odd, though, to be prototyping iPhone apps on a Windows OS, running in Bootcamp. 

           
Click here to download:
iPhone_development_and_Axure_t.zip (473 KB)

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