What started off as a really helpful tool quickly spiraled into something that was not. After using the software for several years on many projects, I was locked out of my account, and eventually figured out that my account was suspended.
After contacting them through their sales chat, I was told that my account had been suspended because one of my projects "looked like a scam" "This was a possible violation of their terms of use."
Keep in mind this was a very, very rough draft, which consisted mostly of a few grabby headlines and Lorem Ipsum placeholder text. I assured them my client was a legitimate, brick-and-mortar business who has been in business for over 40 years. They asked for proof of this, so I provided an email from my client describing his business and what he needed. This was not sufficient.
Two more days go by and I was contacted by the "head of customer service". Instead of being helpful or considerate of the situation, he instructed me to submit my client's "statutory documents and financial license" so they can get this resolved. That information, of course, is none of their business and I refused.
This overreach and secretly moderating my project disturbs me. I don't know what's going on at Draftium/Weblium, but it's not their place to do this, especially on a mockup.
Hello, PH world.
We've done 500+ websites for our customers during the last 6 months and realized that the main challenge is not to develop the website for a customer but to collect the content and synchronize the vision together.
We started to look at many prototyping tools and found that all of them operate with elements and it takes hours and hours to complete the prototype for a client - it doesn't work us internally. So we've had to build our own turbo solution. This is how Draftium was born.
Now, we've decided to release it as a free tool for other developers, studios and marketers to improve their process internally and externally. We see the future of the tool as one single place for ideating with the customer and collecting all digital assets from him and the feedback too.
Hope you guys will enjoy the product and provide a valuable feedback.
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@david_braun
Firstly, I love the tool.
Working with it, I didn't find an option to put a looping background video (typically home/landing page); and then to overlay words on top of that video.
The Calls to Action are all 2-step processes: that is, the user enters hir name and phone; User requests a demo and gets a thank you. ......... So, what about an option that allows for a series of questions, each connecting to the next, with a progress bar at the top? The maker/customer decides how long the series should be and has an END/Thank you option to end the series.
Allowing for an image to be uploaded into the footer would also be useful.
So, I sound like I'm at a smorgasbord! sorry. .... But, it's in Beta ... so I thought I'd add my 2cents worth 😉
I have been testing alpha version of Draftium before the launch and must admit it has greatly simplified my work. So when I need to create a landing page, I make a quick wireframe (with copy) in Draftium and pass it on to UX designers. They already see what I want to get as a result and so we spend less time on numerous iterations.
Pros:
Clean and simple UI, saves a lot of time
Cons:
Would like to have a greater choice of blocks but I think they'll do that
People ask me on Fb is this a tool for lo-fi or hi-fi prototypes?
The truth is: you can make both on Draftium.
Create a draft structure from simple blocks in a few minutes and you are done with lo-fi mockup to discuss the concept.
Add real texts, images, interactions and animations and it will be hard to tell whether it's a prototype or a live website.
See examples below:
Lo-fi: http://usejoylofi.draftium.site/
Hi-fi: https://usejoy.draftium.site/
@eugene_polev So, there are issues/bugs ... been using product all week as a vision communication tool.
1)Sometimes "preview" and "comment" show the mockup; sometimes they don't. ....
2)Sometimes an element saves to the intended page AND saves to other UNintended pages at the same time, creating some confusion.
3)Sometimes people using the link to a prototype get really weird unintended effects in their version, like element duplications sitting on top of each other, creating a "double-vision" effect; or complete unintended repetitions of elements one after the other.
So this is a great product and absolutely useful. BUT please work on these issues or it will defeat the purpose as a team-collaboration/visioning tool.
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I have been testing alpha version of Draftium before the launch and must admit it has greatly simplified my work. So when I need to create a landing page, I make a quick wireframe (with copy) in Draftium and pass it on to UX designers. They already see what I want to get as a result and so we spend less time on numerous iterations.
Pros:Clean and simple UI, saves a lot of time
Cons:Would like to have a greater choice of blocks but I think they'll do that
Weblium
Weblium
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