ForeUI Main Features

Multi-Project & Multi-Page Editing

ForeUI supports multiple projects (plots) editing, you can click the tab above plot editing area to switch the current editing plot..

Each project (plot) can contain multiple pages, you can manage pages in the page management window:

Various UI Themes

ForeUI provides various UI themes for mockups (why?), including Hand Drawing, Wireframe, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Windows 7 themes. The UI themes cover high, middle and low fidelity degrees. You can switch the UI themes at anytime, that means you can design the UI with any theme and preview it with other themes later.

Hand Drawn    Wire Frame    Windows XP    Mac OS X    Windows 7

To switch the UI theme, just select the item in the drop-down list at the bottom:

Define Behavior with Flowchart

ForeUI allow you to define the behavior of prototype by creating the flowchart for event handling. The behavior will be converted to Javascript when simulating, it is intuitive and interesting.

Interactive Simulation

You can run your prototype in your browser! You can define the behavior of each element, so that your prototype can provide real user experience. The simulation is DHTML based, you can also upload the simulation to your website and make it work as part of your site. The simulation is also skinnable, the look and feel of simulation will be the same with current UI theme of the prototype. Here are two samples generated by ForeUI: Website Simulation & Installer Simulation.

Customized Element

You can create your own element and keep it for future usage. The customized elements can have their own behavior too, that means you can create some functional widgets and you can create prototype with fun. You can also wrap your customized element as a library.

Master Page

Master page can be regarded as a template of page, it define the content and behavior for public use.

Any page can be used as a master page. Once a page use another page as master, it will inherit all content and behavior from it. What's more, the master page can have its own master page too, thus multilevel inherit is possible.

Slide Show

ForeUI support editing multiple plots at a time. Each plot can contain multiple pages, you can view your design with slide show, You can also make some annotation on your slide show.

Prototype Export

You can export your design to PDF document, or export the pages to PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF and WBMP images. You can also export the prototype to DHTML, which includes all designed behavior and can be run in web browser.

Rumple Effect

Rumple effect is a special feature of ForeUI. It can make the background into a crumpled piece of paper. Besides using Hand Drawing UI theme, rumple effect is another option to suggest stronger incompletion. You can customize the rumple effect in the plot configure window.

Switch the Tool's Look and Feel

The tool itself is also skinnable, you can use the native system look and feel if you like.

You can change the tool's look and feel in the settings dialog:

Below are two sceenshots that shows ForeUI with native look and feel in Windows XP and Mac OS X: