In the light of Keynote as a recently popular tool for creating wireframes, here comes another emerging stencil for all to use. As the project name suggests, the template is free, comes with various form elements, modal boxes, and a number of useful header styles. One thing that stands out is the way the stencil is being positioned within github, and the author openly invites others to fork it, tweak it and improve it. Without implying otherwise it would be interesting to see if UX folk will be actually able to push, pull, branch and merge files under git to move the project forward. Or perhaps the technical barrier and the high learning curve behind git commands are just too complicated for the non-developer? Either way, thanks Colin for another cool project.

Grab the files (and collaborate) right here.

In Colin’s own words:

I’m working on some a free wireframing toolkit for creating interactive prototypes with Apple’s Keynote. It’s the best wireframe tool around, and I’ve been using it to build interfaces for web applications.

Credits: Colin Nederkoorn

The Omnigraffle Sitemap Generator is a script that auto creates nicely looking sitemaps from a given XML file. It’s really just a simple byproduct from the guys over at Fuzzy Math. If this is your cup of tea, Jason, also wrote up a table generator script. Hope this saves someone some time.

Download the Sitemap Generator

Credits: Jason Kunesh

The Usability Test Data Logger is an interesting excel sheet for capturing usability test results. It’s not new (first released in 2002) but still fully valid (with the latest release in 2008). Brought to you by the guys over at Userfocus, the tool is customizable, cross platform, captures both qualitative and quantitative data and generates reports. The excel file also comes with an embedded timer for logging time on task. If you find this free tool really useful and like to support other’s work, you may do so as it’s released under donationware.

Download the Data Logger (Excel & Manual).