kartooner

It’s under­stand­able why some artists or writ­ers for that mat­ter will come to a halt in their cre­ative think­ing. The process of out­put­ing ones thoughts to pen­cil and paper (or the com­puter) can some­times be a stress­ful one. Not stress­ing in the “My para­keet is stuck in the toi­let” way but rather a “cre­ative block” that puts a cork in the cre­ative process.

A team from the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia Berke­ley have cre­ated a piece of use­ful soft­ware called Denim that helps stream­line the process of cre­at­ing web­sites by allow­ing the user to sketch out “inter­ac­tive web sites” and ulti­mately flesh out their ideas.

Accord­ing to Wired.com :

“Although the soft­ware is three years in the mak­ing, the first really sta­ble, usable ver­sion was released last month. It is already becom­ing an under­ground hit with design­ers. Denim has been down­loaded about 15,000 times, with almost no adver­tis­ing except a cou­ple of aca­d­e­mic papers, Lan­day said.

In addi­tion to web­sites, Denim is being used to design inter­faces for desk­top soft­ware. Car­son Reynolds at MIT’s Media Lab used it to sketch an inter­face for some Linux soft­ware.“

http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/denim/