BP5-Antetype

For this week’s Web 2.0 discovery assignment I chose the Antetype application it is according to their website, “It is a brand new, ground-breaking design application that supports user interface designers at every step of their work.” (Ergosign, 2010). For those of you who don't know what user interface design is it is pretty simple. It is the design of the front end of technology i.e. the part of technology that "you" the user interact with.

While I have yet to create a product with Antetype I have played around with it some and watched all the tutorials. Antetype like Udutu (see my prior review here) is very simple to use however it seems to bridge the divide between WYSIWYG's and actual usable software.  AllAll you need to do is drag and drop your selected widget onto the workspace and edit it, which is as simple as using IWeb, with none of the frustration.

A Screen Shot of the Antetype workspace.

This application will be useful to me because while I am looking into a few different challenge plans the one that I am most likely to pursue is one where I build a classroom technology-training interface for instructors, and while I know some HTML coding I can only build very simple Web 1.0 pages. Antetype will help me to bring my web pages to the next level. The designers of Antetype created the software because while there are many good design programs for different aspects of the user interface design life cycle none of them can do every single step whereas Antetype can.