CogTool is a general purpose UI prototyping tool with a difference-- it automatically evaluates your design with a predictive human performance model (a "cognitive crash dummy"). Simply create a storyboard of your design idea with sketches, images or on a canvas with CogTool's widgets, demonstrate tasks on that storyboard, then press a button to produce a valid cognitive model predicting how long it will take a skilled user to complete those tasks. CogTool can be used today to baseline your current interface, or compare competitors' interfaces, and predict how much better your new designs will be.
CogTool is free software, released under the FSF Lesser Gnu Public License. See LICENSE.txt for details.
There is a separate repository of documentation, both for end users
and for developers: https://github.com/cogtool/documentation.git
TODO Merge this seperate repo with the in-branch, GitHub Pages-powered docs/ folder.
To compile CogTool,
- Download the source code from GitHub.
- Install Apache Ant
- From within the project directory, run
ant
Running the ant command begins the build process specified in build.xml.
Building on Windows
The step in the build process for building Windows installers will only happen when building CogTool on Windows. This steps assumes that you have installed NSIS and the executable is available at C:\Program Files (x86)\NSIS\makensis.exe