Justinmind Prototyper
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Justinmind Prototyper is an authoring tool for software prototypes and high-fidelity website wireframe
Website wireframe
A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website. The wireframe depicts the page layout or arrangement of the website’s content, including interface elements and navigational systems, and how they work...

s. It was created by the European
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 startup Justinmind and is currently on version 4.0 . It offers capabilities typically found in diagramming tools like drag and drop placement, resizing, formatting and export/import of widgets. In addition, it has features for annotating widgets and defining interactions such as linking, animations, conditional linking, calculations, simulating tab controls, show/hide elements and database simulation. There is support for high-fidelity simulation of Rich Internet Applications. Justinmind Prototyper can then generate HTML prototypes and Microsoft Word specifications.

High-fidelity Prototyping

The program creates high-fidelity prototype
Prototype
A prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.The word prototype derives from the Greek πρωτότυπον , "primitive form", neutral of πρωτότυπος , "original, primitive", from πρῶτος , "first" and τύπος ,...

s a step before the first version of a software or website. The prototype can be used for show reels and testing purposes. Justinmind Prototyper can be used to create prototypes and simulations of software without any coding, thus allowing non-programmers to be involved in the project.

Project Management

It supports Agile software development
Agile software development
Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams...

 methodology, having a full-featured requirements and comments management.

Usability testing

It can be used for remote testing using Justinmind Usernote, which allow users to navigate through the prototype remotely. Users can also create comments over specific elements in the prototype in order to give their feedback. The application also supports the integration of analytic tools like Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website...

, WebTrends
WebTrends
Webtrends is a private company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, United States. It provides web analytics and other software solutions related to marketing intelligence...

, ClickTale
Clicktale
ClickTale is an Internet company founded in 2006, that provides Customer Experience Analytics and Web Analytics services. As of February 2009, ClickTale had over 20,000 users and its revenue was estimated at over $1.2M per annum...

, Crazy Egg and others to conduct real-time remote testing.

Awards

It has been nominated for the Epsilon Award 2010
Epsilon Award
The Epsilon Award is an award bestowed each year by the European Software Conference for software applications, particularly shareware with €500,000 prize money. The 2011 Epsilon Award will be held in London on November 19 and 20, 2011. Votes are accepted until October 27, 2011.- Winners :...

. Later it won the fifth place of the award.

In 2011, Justinmind was awarded the second prize of the Eclipse Community Award at the EclipseCon 2011 in Santa Fe, California.
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