When comparing Justinmind vs Fireworks, the Slant community recommends Fireworks for most people. In the question“What are the best mockup and wireframing tools for websites?” Fireworks is ranked 4th while Justinmind is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Fireworks is:
From lo-fidelity wireframe, into clickable prototype and then assemble the images for the final hi-fi build as well.
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Pros
Pro Reusable components
You can create reusable components that you can use over and over again.
Pro Adaptive and responsive designs
You can create adaptive and responsive designs that will react to the viewport/screen size of the user.
Pro Functional prototypes
You can create HTML prototypes with full interactions.
Pro Supports low, med, and high fidelity
You can create simple wireframes, pixel perfect screens, or anything in between.
Pro Lots of online tutorials
The free Getting Started area has plenty of advice for getting started with Justinmind.
Pro Free forever
After one month trying the pro version, it changes to a completely free version with a few limitations.
Pro Can be used for the entire life-cycle of the design
From lo-fidelity wireframe, into clickable prototype and then assemble the images for the final hi-fi build as well.
Pro Layer Sharing
Features such as 'Layer Sharing' allows you to quickly update shared components such as headers across multiple pages. Other mockup tools such as Mockingbird will require you to manually propagate changes across all the pages.
Pro PSD compatible
Open PSD files
Pro Awesome Symbol Libraries
A significant advantage over web-app style mockup tools are the symbol libraries for Fireworks.
From boagworld:
Both symbols, styles and vector shapes can be saved for re-use and collected into useful library resources. In addition Fireworks ships with a common library of useful objects including buttons, browser and application elements for both Mac and Windows look and feel.
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Cons
Con Expensive
Pricing is $19 per month or $495 for a perpetual license.
Con Moderate learning curve
Con Is being phased out
Adobe is ditching Fireworks. So those nasty bugs will never get fixed.