Firefox wireframing tool

Pencil is a free tool for sketching user interfaces. Since it’s a Firefox 3 extension, it runs on virtually all platforms.

The tool has many of the features you would expect from a decent prototyping tool like:

  • Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping
  • Multi-page document with background page
  • On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
  • PNG rasterizing
  • Undo/redo supports
  • Installing user-defined stencils
  • Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating…
  • Cross-platforms
  • Adding external objects

The only disadvantage of the tool is that it lacks bacis interactivity like creating interlinked pages.

The Pencil Project

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4 Responses to “Firefox wireframing tool”

  1. Blackhatseo Says:
    July 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Added. Nice work on this one. Btw, my blog is dofollow, stop by and grab a link. Walter

  2. Rohan Sandeep Says:
    September 9th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    I haven’t loved Visio much.

    With the amount of design/developer support that firefox provides i think firefox should be rightly credited as the ‘tool – browser’ :) Am sure going to try this one and recommend others as well.

  3. Giridhar Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Pencil is good, but to pass along the file in editable format to ppl in a company like mine, Excel is only prefered. Not all have FF and surprising many dont have even ppt.

  4. Sandesh Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Try this tool http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/

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