Visual Understanding Environment VS Pencil Project

Visual Understanding Environment Reviews

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Visual Understanding Environment mentions (8)

• Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

  You might find the following useful : Visual Understanding Environment - https://vue.tufts.edu/ Came across this in another thread recently - https://quarto.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• What software should I use for drawing out decision trees?

  I use this for drawing "graphs" in the formal math sense like you're looking for: https://vue.tufts.edu/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What tool should I use to make a point crawl?

  There are a number of free and commercial softwares developed for diagrams, flowcharts, and mind mapping with similar features. I haven't used them in a while, but in the past I've liked yEd and VUE. Both are free and support multiple platforms. Source: about 2 years ago

• Is Tufts’ Visual Understanding Environment dead? It was amazing but won’t open.

  The site is working for me ( https://vue.tufts.edu ) as is the download, so it was probably a temporary glitch. Source: almost 3 years ago

• App/Software with videos?

  I think your best bet may be Visual Understanding Environment (VUE). I can't say for sure if it will store or play videos but they make a big deal about "digital media" on their website. Source: almost 3 years ago

Pencil Project mentions (11)

• Uizard: Figma alternative with low learning curve

  I am a software developer, so doing UX is never my strength. From time to time though, I would resort to using the open source tool Pencil (https://pencil.evolus.vn/) to get a low fidelity mock-up. Lately I've been encountering bugs where images would come out broken when I re-open my wireframe in Pencil. Frustrated of the issue on Pencil, I tried out uizard yesterday, and have been really happy with it. It's... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Quick UI-design tool for mockups?

  Thanks for your replies. I checked some of them out, but I found one on my own that fits me perfectly: Pencil. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best practice to draw/describe UIs in plain text?

  I wouldn't use text to illustrate a GUI. We use Pencil with the crayon-styled stencils to make quick mockups. The crayon styling makes it clear that they're just mockups so people don't poke at the style aspects of the design. We've gotten great feedback from our clients that these are effective illustrations too. Source: over 1 year ago

• Simple tool for network documentation?

  I use MS Visio at work and Pencil (free) at home. Source: almost 2 years ago

• A blog web design with Inkscape, what do you think about it?

  Thank you ! Of the ones I have tested, the only one that really works is Pencil, unfortunately, it lacks a lot of functionalities, and it is still far from being as practical as Figma, adobe xd etc. I think Inkscape is much more practical and powerful, but maybe it's just because I'm used to it :). Source: over 2 years ago