ProtoShare - Interactive Mockups

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Licence model is a misunderstanding. Quote "Renew your license ($50) to continue receiving support and free add-on updates." I like how it doesn't mention that if you don't renew the licence you cant view your mockups. Well you can... but you have to edit them. Otherwise you see "ProtoShare License Error". Price could be justified if there were more update for this plugin. Not a single feature/update was released so far in 2016. However, licencing problems aside, it's probably the best tool for making mockups on confluence.

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  ProtoShare / Astound Commerce

  Hi Grzegorz,

  Thanks for your feedback. You can download the attachments and open them in any browsers and your wires will function. It is true that you can't use the built in viewer after the licenses expires. We will take a look at that.

  Best,

  Andrew Mottaz

The killer reason why you should not buy it is: After the licence expired, you are not able to see existing wireframes anymore. I mean it is ok if you cannot edit them or create new ones, but I have drawn them under a valid licence!

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  ProtoShare / Astound Commerce

  Hi Renata,

  If you download the attachments, you can open the wires up in any browser and they will still function. Hope this clarifies!

  Best,

  Andrew

Your app is nice but it has some really frustrating limitations: 1) You cannot copy your design to another design inside of each Issue each opens individually. So why spend any time creating material you might want to put in other designs? I burned hours on one only to find it cannot be duplicated. >:( 2) You can't use the "RIA Components" so there is no simple way to mockup a table. Which is a very common element in mockups. What's the point in having a "Stencil" that is needed but can't be used. It would have been really helpful. 3) The inspector panel should be dockable. Most of the time it gets in the way. Perhaps it could slide out from the other side so the content is in the middle like an IDE. 4) Every Save creates attachments which are not necessary and just pollute my JIRA issue. There should be a choice to turn this off. It should be a "Export to html" menu choice. Hopefully this app will mature and be more simple to use some day.

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  ProtoShare / Astound Commerce

  Hi Larry,

  Thanks for your review. Just wanted to respond to a couple of your issues -- First, you can copy and paste between designs. So if you select all the components and ctrl-v ctrl-c you can paste them all into an empty design.

  As for the RIA components - that is a limitation of the Confluence editor that we don't currently have a way to fix. We are looking at adding some replacement components for the functionality you want. You can the advanced HTML component to roll-your-own, but I agree it's easier to have something more out of the box.

  Your last two issues are good points - we've had requests for dockability of the inspector. Had not heard about the attachments issue, but I can certainly see that it could get annoying. We'll take a look at that as well.

  Thanks again for your feedback!

The disappointing thing is that page tree and navigation is not supported in confluence plugin. It is not understandable why this important feature is not available and why it is not planned. The way ist is now it unfortunately a good drawing tool but not more, since interaction is not really implemented.

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  ProtoShare / Astound Commerce

  Hi Yves, Thanks for the feedback. We don't have the page tree and navigation available because these prototypes are intended to be stand-alone and embedded in the Confluence pages. You can still create interactions using states to show and hide sections of the page or the entire contents of a page. Using this functionality, you can create multi-page interactions. You can see a short video about how to use states here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqJ9my3ubxo#t=24 So simulating a website or app with hundreds of pages would be problematic, but focused interactions with 2-10 'pages' works really well with ProtoShare for Confluence.