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Add to SafariWhen comparing Adobe Fireworks vs FluidUI, the Slant community recommends FluidUI for most people. In the question“What are the best high-fidelity website design tools?” FluidUI is ranked 12th while Adobe Fireworks is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose FluidUI is:
The learning curve is relatively low compared to other software that supports animations/transitions. Both building the wireframes and designing the interactions is all drop and drag.
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Pros
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 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 Combined Pixel AND Vector editor
Best integration in a graphics editor.
Pro JPG compression preview
Offers a side by side comparison of different JPG compressions in real time with magnifier.
Pro User friendly
The learning curve is relatively low compared to other software that supports animations/transitions. Both building the wireframes and designing the interactions is all drop and drag.
Pro Tools for team collaboration
Work with your team on a design. Connect on live video calls and chat or add comments.
Pro Supports realistic gestures & transitions
You can simulate all the typical iOS gestures such as tap, double tap, swipe & long hold. These gestures then can trigger animated transitions such as sliding, fading, pop in, & flip. This enables you to create very realistic interactable demos of your app. Checkout the demo page for some examples.
Pro Awesome version control
Every action you or your team takes automatically creates a revision you can easily revert to.
Pro Provides UI assets from all the versions of iOS
The UI library is huge and very high quality. All the UI required to design iO7 apps is included as well as iOS 6 and basic wireframing elements. For example in iOS7 it provides:
- Backgrounds
- Navigation & status bars
- Layouts (list pickers, maps, keyboards, scroll etc)
- Controls
- Typography
- Icons
Pro Fast
Using the app is feels very snappy.
Pro Free forever for a single project & 10 screens
They have a very reasonable free tier with the paid versions starting at $12/month.
Pro Lets you test on an iPhone as well as in the browser
You can preview your designs live in the browser as well as send them to a mobile device to better simulate the UX.
Pro Makes it easy to plan out the app workflow
Fluid isn't just about wireframing static screens. You can plan out all the user flows and then define the transitions between them. This is really handy for planning out the entire user workflow.
Cons
Con Was phased out by Adobe
Adobe abandoned this product with no single suitable replacement. Unfortunately, a common story with Adobe products. -- Very disappointing.
Con Crashes every once in a while
It is prone to unexpected crashes. Frequent saves are recommended. -- AGREED!
Con Proprietary PNG format
If you created files with their proprietary PNG format and you no longer have Fireworks (they phased it out) then you're out of luck since nothing else will read those files and preserve the layers and other features that Fireworks offered.
