You Need the Best Design Tools Money Can't Buy

I'm back on Information Architecture (IA) work collecting inputs into Functional Requirements documentation (for a Tridion project). Here are some interesting (and free!) tools that you might want to check out when working with page types, content types, and wire frames.

Lorem Ipsum just not meaty enough (is everything better with bacon)? Sounds kind of fishy? It's not. Except that it is (Tuna Ipsum).

What's Lorem Ipsum? It's place holder or dummy text. But it's not enough to have just text. We need image placeholders. How about full of kittens? Or again with the meat?

Want a screenshot? Chrome has its own app that does the full page capture. Fireshot is now available for FireFox, IE, and Chrome.

Happy designing!


Since we're on the topic of free and open source... wait, did you know what SDL Tridion open source project I was going to plug? Fine, I'll talk about it in the next post.

For the business analysts out there, check out WebSequenceDiagram, my favorite quick-and-dirty activity diagram tool.

Viewzi — What are you looking for?

Viewzi — What are you looking for?

Found this search site in this month's Wired magazine (p073 Sep 2008--playlist: September section).

It filters results into separate views. One of them is a video preview of multiple sources all at the same time.

Pretty crazy stuff. The future is now!