new project - fluidIA - open source UI prototyping based on jQuery

new project - fluidIA - open source UI prototyping based on jQuery


Hello,
A year ago, on a part time basis I started an open source user
interface prototyping project - www.fluidIA.org. Recently this turned
into a grad project. Seeing the powerful potential of jQuery, I've
relied on this Javascript library to build this browser based
application. The tool aims to empower interaction designers and
developers to quickly generate wireframes/prototypes, and more so,
allows for rapid refinement through object orientation and
inheritance. Support for state based objects has also been already
implemented. A working Firefox copy is running over at: http://stage.fluidia.org
For the fluidIA project, one of my upcoming tasks is also to explore
the ability to create a UI for jQuery's event handling capabilities.
In turn, this could result in something of a WYSIWYG editor for event
based interactions. However, for more powerful logic and data binding,
the environment will also support the ability to toggle fluidIA
objects and replace them with "real" code, should developers wish to
program the desired interactions. In a way then, these objects can act
as guiding or exploratory ideas which would then evolve to proper
code. Here are two very rough sketches of this:
http://fluidia.org/wp/?p=192 (toggle)
http://fluidia.org/wp/?p=94 (low-fi events)
So why am I writing about all this here? Well, so far I've been a one
man army doing design, development and recently user testing. Just
thought to throw the project up here should there be any interested
developers / designers in participating. I'm really a generalist
(visual and interaction designer by education), and thought it would
be cool to work with some pro developers on this.
1. So far I've opened the source over at: http://github.com/fluidia/fluidia/tree/master
2. I have also opened up the design process: http://fluidia.org/wp/?category_name=sketches
where I am interested in contributions from others as well. (Am really
interested in running an open source + open design project and see how
designers could collaborate with developers.)
3. Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/fluidia
Should any jQuery gurus be interested in working on this project,
please let me know. Would love to hear from you.
Cheers,
Jakub Linowski
www.fluidia.org
www.linowski.ca