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Maqetta is a drag and drop UI design tool that runs in your browser

Drag-and-drop HTML5 authoring in your browser

Need to prototype an HTML5 app? Forget coding. Hand-eye coordination is just about all you need to prototype with Maqetta, a browser-based WYSIWYG tool for desktop and mobile applications. This first article in a three-part series introduces this free, open source project that runs in a browser and lets designers drag and drop a rich set of widgets to build live UI mockups. In Part 1, get to know Maqetta’s major functions and features while prototyping a realistic mobile application.

Maqetta means mockup, Part 1: Design an HTML5 mobile UI http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/mo-maqetta-1/index.html?ca=drs-

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Just As I Was Getting Used To It, Google Ditches The Black Bar

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_ditches_the_black_bar_puts_search_atop_all.php

Google has replaced that ubiquitous black bar with a Google search bar that more closely matches the gray, red and blue design scheme that has rolled out across so many of its Web properties this year. Instead of text links to the various Google services across the bar, they now appear in a drop-down menu under the Google logo. The new bar still displays the Google+ notification box and share button. There’s also a search box right in the toolbar now, restoring Google’s core product to the very top of all its pages. The bar lets you search whatever Google…