What are you, people? On dope?

I’m working on a project with some other team members and I have to say that WireframeSketcher really rocks! I’ve long been a proponent of drawing up the screens on a piece of paper and used drawing tools to draw my mockups. A friend of mine turned me on to balsamiq mockups. The sketches it produces are nice and look pencil drawn and all (I like the look of them — very fun), but it had a major problem:

• it wasn’t fast enough. running balsamiq as an air application was very slow — moving pictures around on my screen was painful.

wireframesketcher has

• it’s integrated into my IDE (Eclipse) — so I can bring it up fast.  I have access to SVN for sharing.  Very nice
• I really like the code complete (ctrl+space).  It brings up a fast list of components that I can scroll through and then use code complete to see what I want to include.

Some features I’d like to see:

• I like mockup’s resizing function.  I select the items, I grab the edge of the screen and drag and everything or shrinks relatively in size.  In wireframesketcher, it actually shrinks the individual elements, too.  I wish it didn’t do this.
• Custom components that we can include in the list.  If nothing but pictures.  It would be great to be able to add our own composite xml components to the mix.
• Android and iPhone components (it would be addressed if we could do custom compenents).  Maybe grab some of the pictures from:  yahoo

Btw, wireframesketcher is authored by Peter Severin.  I wonder if this is the same guy as the JasperAssistant guy?   I think it is based on this link.  Oh well, I won’t hold it against Peter.  I liked JasperAssistant for a while (we bought several licenses), but it didn’t update features as fast as I’d like.  wireframesketcher seems to be moving right along.