Meet us at UXcamp!

We received overwhelmingly positive feedback on ANTETYPE over the last couple of days at the super-busy UPA2010 conference. If you didn’t make it to Munich, you have another chance to catch us on Saturday (May 29th) and on Sunday (May 30th) at the UXcamp Europe in Berlin.

As its name suggests, the UXcamp is a rather informal setup where we would love to show you the current build, openly discuss problems or feature requests you see and let you sign up for the private beta.

So if you are around, it’d be great to meet you this weekend at the Humboldt University!

See you there,
Tim

Sneak Peek today at UPA2010!

If you are visiting the annual conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association over the next days make sure to stop at the ERGOSIGN booth. Located right in the foyer of the hotel “Bayerischer Hof” we have a machine running the latest build of ANTETYPE.

You can let our designers show you the various features or play with ANTETYPE on your own. But make sure to sign up to our newsletter so we can let you know about future developments such as beta and final releases.

Looking forward to meet you,

Marcus and Dieter

3… 2… 1… Lift Off!

After a long time of designing and coding it is hard to express our excitement, which we currently feel by putting this website online. It was a quite rocky path from the first rough ideas for a little prototyping app to this magic moment of telling you and the whole design community about a new product called ANTETYPE.

So … how was this project conceived in the first place and why are we so excited about it?

For years, our designers at ERGOSIGN had to face shortcomings with existing design tools in their daily life, which are probably familiar to all of you:

Tools such as Photoshop or Omnigraffle all offer great potential in certain steps of the design life cycle. But mostly it is the transition between those steps (e.g. from wireframing to visual design) that forces designers to change tools, e.g. from Balsamiq to Photoshop, and start from scratch. Surely one could use Expression Blend, but this entails many technical constraints, requires a lot of technical knowledge and is only reasonable for WPF or Silverlight projects, . …and last but not least, it doesn’t run on a Mac ;-)

This situation led us to writing our own prototyping tool that will address these issues in an easy way. And – after many suggestions from clients, that saw the first betas – we decided to release ANTETYPE as a publicly available product eventually.

To be honest, that particular release date is still not fixed. However we already have a stable version that is productive in real life projects, yet not complete in terms of features.

But – practising the user-centered design philosophy we (at ERGOSIGN) preach – we will start a free private beta very very soon. Only this way we can incorporate as much feedback from you, the real users, and make it a product all designers can benefit from.

So please sign up on the ANTETYPE homepage, we will get in touch with you very soon!

Cheers,

Felix, Patrick, Björn and Tim