People ask me on Fb is this a tool for lo-fi or hi-fi prototypes?
The truth is: you can make both on Draftium.
Create a draft structure from simple blocks in a few minutes and you are done with lo-fi mockup to discuss the concept.
Add real texts, images, interactions and animations and it will be hard to tell whether it's a prototype or a live website.
See examples below:
Lo-fi: http://usejoylofi.draftium.site/
Hi-fi: https://usejoy.draftium.site/
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@eugene_polev So, there are issues/bugs ... been using product all week as a vision communication tool.
1)Sometimes "preview" and "comment" show the mockup; sometimes they don't. ....
2)Sometimes an element saves to the intended page AND saves to other UNintended pages at the same time, creating some confusion.
3)Sometimes people using the link to a prototype get really weird unintended effects in their version, like element duplications sitting on top of each other, creating a "double-vision" effect; or complete unintended repetitions of elements one after the other.
So this is a great product and absolutely useful. BUT please work on these issues or it will defeat the purpose as a team-collaboration/visioning tool.
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@eugene_polev they sent me screenshots of their weird versions.
@pavel_pavlenko Based on our experience diving into colors and styles too early in website development process usually leads to lots of iterations and may shift focus from things which really matters in the beginning of the web project - structure and content. Converting structure in a full-fledged website is a next step in our roadmap.
@niteshmanav Thanks Nitesh! Invision can't "code" your prototype to the level when it's act like a real website. Also Draftium prototypes compatible with 99% of devices already from the box. So there's no need to design mobile and tablet version. In fact Draftium like Invision that code your wireframes.
We plan to integrate with WordPress 5 Gutenberg in both sides. As for now we can manually convert prototypes from old WordPress right in Draftium.
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@niteshmanav Integration with Wordpress will be awesome
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Can't wait to use this on a project, it's looking awesome. Out of curiosity, any plans for getting this for use cases outside of proptotyping and for final output like web builders?
@atomicnicholas Hey Nicholas! Looking forward for your feedback after using Draftium!
As for web builder – actually we already made one. It's all started with idea of simple but powerfull sitebuilder. And we made it – it's called Weblium. For now it works in studio mode. Check David's Braun (CEO) first post here.
After all we do plan to bring life in Draftium prototype with one click, applying smart UI kit and convert it to final website. Summarizing all that, the flow will be like:
- you (or your customer) create prototype with one of the template,
- apply your (or client's) content,
- few revisions in collaboration mode to check is everything is fine
- choose UI kit
(magic)
- you got a all-devices compatible website, with cloud hosting and other cool stuff already from the box
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@andrii_pavlov Now that is an awesome workflow. I already found the many included templates a big timesaver, but removing too many steps involved in the . normal workflow yet maintain the intended quality of results with (the most) minimal input (lazy does it) makes for an incredible selling point. Something powerful (but in effect complicated) web builders fail to do seamlessly. Absolutley love the motivation behind this: the combination of simplicity, speed and frictionless workflow paired with tasteful results, like a holy grail that's finally coming to fruition.
Hello, PH world.
We've done 500+ websites for our customers during the last 6 months and realized that the main challenge is not to develop the website for a customer but to collect the content and synchronize the vision together.
We started to look at many prototyping tools and found that all of them operate with elements and it takes hours and hours to complete the prototype for a client - it doesn't work us internally. So we've had to build our own turbo solution. This is how Draftium was born.
Now, we've decided to release it as a free tool for other developers, studios and marketers to improve their process internally and externally. We see the future of the tool as one single place for ideating with the customer and collecting all digital assets from him and the feedback too.
Hope you guys will enjoy the product and provide a valuable feedback.
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@david_braun
Firstly, I love the tool.
Working with it, I didn't find an option to put a looping background video (typically home/landing page); and then to overlay words on top of that video.
The Calls to Action are all 2-step processes: that is, the user enters hir name and phone; User requests a demo and gets a thank you. ......... So, what about an option that allows for a series of questions, each connecting to the next, with a progress bar at the top? The maker/customer decides how long the series should be and has an END/Thank you option to end the series.
Allowing for an image to be uploaded into the footer would also be useful.
So, I sound like I'm at a smorgasbord! sorry. .... But, it's in Beta ... so I thought I'd add my 2cents worth 😉
@esinger Thanks Emme.
Background video is on the way.
Form wizard is in roadmap.
Images in footer - good idea
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@david_braun CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! 🖋 Design Tool of the Year: Draftium !!!! WELL DONE GUYS, you have worked HARD and certainly deserve it :-)
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Finally someone thought of prototyping tool for complete non-designers like me. Thanks guys!! What features does Pro plan has? Is the free plan limited in terms of projects or time?
@eugine_dychko I’ve got your pain. 😉 When our team shared Draftium concept, my thoughts were the same. Because I’d tired to draw the moqups for designers on paper or in Power Point.
You can use Draftium for free and you are able here to create up to 3 prototypes and use free library of ready-made templates. You can work with free plan forever if you feel that those options are enough for you.
Pro plan allows you to create unlimited amount of prototypes and use extended library of templates (there are more than 300 up to date), removes branding, and provides you with priority support.
BTW: Check David’s message above - today for PH community PRO acc is super available :)
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I tried a bunch of different tools for prototyping. But this one is definitely one of my favorite. Really easy-to-use prototyping tool. Nice work. Did you thing of continuing the flow and give an option to some kind of transform UX to UI?
@anna_ponomarenko Thanks for sharing your experience, Anna.
Actually we have website building platform which name is Weblium (weblium.com) that could help you convert ready-made prototype into a website on a single platform.
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