Firedraw: Ajax based visual modeling tool using RoR

Dear Friends, We have developed an Ajax based visual modeling tool named Firedraw! available at www.firedraw.org and we have developed it using Ruby on Rails. Requesting your kind feedback so that we may further optimize it and make it more useful. Thanking You, Best Regards, Deepak Kapoor CEO & CTO Ignited Minds ignitedminds.co.in

luckydeepak@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Friends, We have developed an Ajax based visual modeling tool named Firedraw! available at www.firedraw.org and we have developed it using Ruby on Rails. Requesting your kind feedback so that we may further optimize it and make it more useful. Thanking You, Best Regards, Deepak Kapoor CEO & CTO Ignited Minds ignitedminds.co.in

I don't think it's ready for end user testing. Doesn't work with Safari at all, kind of works with Firefox 2.x but it's not intuitive and looks terrible. Sorry for my harsh words but in its current state I wouldn't show it to anybody.

gk

I’m sorry I have to say I agree. Doesn’t work reliably on any browser and you really need to get a good designer (if possible someone who also has some good usability ideas). It’s not production ready, that’s for sure.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

14 Jan 2008 Dear Friends, In continuation of our Agile daily builds, today we have put 2 more Usability fixes to Firedraw (www.firedraw.org):

1. While creating New File (using Right click menu or New File link), a pop-up is provided to put in new file name. 2. For drawing connectors, now all possible connect points are highlighted when Connector icon is clicked.

Also, some minor changes like adding different cursor types for actions are also incorporated. Requesting your kind feedback on Firedraw.

Thanking You, Your's Truly, Deepak Kapoor Ignited Minds ignitedminds.co.in luckydeepak@yahoo.com

16 Jan 2008 Dear Friends, This is in continuation of our Agile build for Firedraw. With latest build deployed, we have revamped the UI and manu usability fixes has been incorporated. Since this thread is already extended, I will be starting new thread for newer UI for Firedraw. Thanks, Deepak Kapoor Ignited Minds