DesignerVista Features

Design High-Fidelity and Low Fidelity GUI Mockups

• Create and edit multiple pages and multiple documents.

  You can create GUI designs in one or more pages and save them in a document. You can also open and edit multiple documents.

• Copy GUI Mockups into another Program.

  You can cut copy and paste your designs to another application such as Microsoft Paint or Word.

• Drag and drop Support

  You can create GUI design by drag and drop controls from Shapes Explorer Window.

• Notes Support

  You can take notes to developers or some info while sitting in JAD sessions.

• Wireframing Support

  DesignerVista wireframing support is easy to use and add links to any control to any page.

• Support for both High Fidelity and Low Fidelity Mockup Designs

  DesignerVista supports High-Fidelity mockups with Native Look and Feel and Low Fidelity mockups with custom look and feel.

• Export to HTML files for easy distribution.

  You can export all the GUI designs as HTML Files with links for easy distribution.

Document Templates, Page Templates and Themes

• Document Templates.

  You can create document template for reusable GUI designs. DesignerVista also comes with predefined templates.

• Page Templates.

  You can link one page from another page. Changes made in the source page will be displayed in all the referred pages.

• Theme Support.

  DesignerVista supports many themes: Vista, Plain, Sketch etc. User can customize existing themes or create new themes.

• Office Ribbon Style GUI Designs

  DesignerVista supports Microsoft Office Ribbon style GUI mockup Designs.

• Sketch Mockup - Low-Fidelity Design

  DesignerVista supports Low-Fidelity GUI Mockup designs (Independent of Look and Feel themes).






Editing

• Undo/Redo.

  You can undo or redo edit actions.

• Arbitrary zoom support.

  You can zoom-in to get closer view or zoom out to get better overview of GUI design in a page.

• Page customization.

  Customize page properties such as background color, marquee color, grids etc.

Customize GUI controls

• Gradient, Texture, Preset and Pattern Backgrounds support.

  You can change background of a control using solid colors, gradient, texture patterns.

• Pattern Lines

  Customize line properties such as style, thickness and patterns.

• Borders, Shadow, Glossy Background, Image

  Supports different types of borders, shadow, glossy background and lots of images and icons.

Image and Text

• Inline Text editing

  Inline text editing for single-line edit control is supported.

• Random Text Support.

  You can insert random text (lorem ipsum) instead of typing or copying from other sources. You can insert paragraphs, sentences, words and lists on a single click.

• Support Icons, Images and Pictures.

  DesignerVista comes with lots of toolbar icons and images to prepare GUI design.

• Image Resize.

  You can resize an image or keep the original image size or fit to control size.

• Save GUI Mockup as Image.

  You can save GUI design as image file. PNG, JPEG, GIF image formats are supported.

Rich set of UI controls

• Desktop GUI controls.

  Windows, Dialogs, Dockable Windows, Collapsible Panes, Tables, Trees, Floor Tabbed Pane, Outlookbar Tabbed Panes, FlowList, Ribbon Tab, Ribbon Panels, Icons, Cursors, Panels, Borders, Calculator, Calendar, Split Buttons, Theme Panels, Font Name ListBox, Font Size ListBox, Zoom ListBox, Menubar, Menus, Toolbars, Toolbar buttons and more controls are supported.

• Support for Ribbon controls.

  DesginerVista supports Ribbon Bar, Quick Toolbar, Context Tab, Menu, Ribbon Panels, Buttons, Scrollable Panel, Windows etc.

• Web Controls

  Web Page, Logo, Links, Copyright texts, Image Placeholder, Tab, Navigation Panel, Square/Rounded Buttons, Section Header, Tab Content Panels, Glossy Web Buttons, Web Menu bars, Web Navigation Menus, Panels and more controls.

• Web Forms

  Billing Address Form, Shipping Address, Credit Cards, Payment form, Contact Us, Sign-In form, Store Locator, Check-out form, Thumbnails, Classified forms, Icons, Images and Pictures. More than 2000 icons, images and pictures such as Open Folder Icon, Computer Image, Charts, Media Player, Maps etc.






• Shapes

  Rounded Rectangle, Circle, Ellipse, Triangle, Star, Cylinder, Parallelogram, Diamond, Octagon, Trapezoid, Hexagon, Oblong etc.



• Annotation Controls

  Callouts Balloons, Brackets, Braces, Arrow lines etc.




Table

• Import Excel data

  You can import Table data from Excel.

• Support for Checkbox, Radiobutton columns.

  You can insert checkbox, radiobutton, command button, images etc. in each cell.

• Support for Random text and Sequence Numbers.

  You can insert random text( lorem ipsum) and Sequence Numbers in the table cells.

• Link from a cell to a GUI Design

  You can attach a link to a GUI Design from a cell.

• Table Styles

  DesignerVista comes with a set of predefined Table Styles.

Tree

• Import XML data

  You can import XML file contents into a tree control.

• Import File and folder names

  You can import file and folder names from local File System into tree nodes.

• Support for Checkbox, Radiobutton nodes.

  You can insert checkbox, radiobutton, command button, images etc. in each node.

• Link from a node to a GUI Design

  You can attach a link to a GUI Design from a node.

Layout

• Group and Ungroup Support.

  You can group two or more controls and ungroup them.

• Controls Z-Order Position.

  You can bring overlapped controls to front or send them to back.

• Controls Position and Alignment support.

  You can align GUI controls vertically and horizontally.

• Simple Dialog Layout Management.

  You can create simple dialog layout by a click on toolbar button.

Print and Preview

• Scalable Printing and Print Preview.

  You can print the design either 1:1 scale or scale down for larger designs.

• Customizable Print Options, Page Header and Footer.

  Customize page header and footer contents.

UI Spec and Reports

• UI Spec Report

  You write UI Spec for controls, page and documents and generate UI Spec report in HTML.

• Notes Report

  Compile all the notes you have taken and generate a report.

• Save All Pages As Images

  You can save all pages as images in PNG, JPEG and GIF format.

• Save current page as image

  You can quickly save current page as image in PNG, JPEG and GIF format.