For a long time, I have been looking for the best and most flexible application UI design tool for rapid prototyping and wireframing. I noticed there weren't any well rounded one available. Either they were too complicated which eventually made me think using a proper IDE like Visual Studio or Ecpilse would be far easier or they lack essential features. For example, they were only for web applications and not desktop or vise versa or didn't support mobile apps or they weren't very expandable. Thus I resorted to use very basic diagramming tool which was actually very effective and more importantly free and opensource called Diagram Designer .
This was all until I found Balsamiq. I must admit this was really great! Far better than what I thought. Very simple, elegant UI, done in Adobe AIR which meant could be run in the browser or outside on all widely used platforms. It supports web apps, desktop, mobile(iphone and android) with loads of control libraries plus a nice community which contribute more controls. Welldone Balsamiq!
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