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DesignNote: Design-Annotation Script
DesignNote: Easy Client Feedback on Your Designs
Do you design for your clients? Then Design Note will be your best friend when getting feedback from your clients on your designs. An intuitive interface enables you to upload your graphics to be annotated by your clients.
- Upload your designs or screenshots
- Get quick & easy feedback on your designs
- Full discussion space after submitting feedback
- Attachment & file sharing
- No registration needed – just send a link to your clients
- Fully translatable
- Developed on-top of the CakePHP framework
Do you design for your clients? Then Design Note will be your best friend when getting feedback from your clients on your designs. An intuitive interface enables you to upload your graphics to be annotated by your clients.
A link takes them to the graphic’s page, where they can annotate your designs by simply clicking on them and leaving their feedback.
A discussion page with attachment-sharing features is also included, so you and your clients can have an in-depth conversation about your design.
Fully-Featured Design Feedback Engine
- Send your clients direct-access links to their design-projects
- Clients can use the image/design annotation engine to provide constructive feedback for you
- View feedback as “clicks” on your designs
- Secure your designs by setting access codes
- Group designs into collections if you need feedback on different versions
Additional Discussion & File-Sharing Feature
- Start a 1-on-1 conversation with your clients and show them you are keen on their views
- A fully-featured discussion engine for you and your clients is included too
- Your clients can share files with you through the discussion feature
- A notification system lets you know if there are any new client interactions
Absolute Flexibility
- Unlimited number of administrators
- Unlimited number of collections, items, feedbacks and discussions
- Fully translatable through PO files: comes with English and German translations out-of-the-box
Easy Integration & Use
- Automated installation script – no extensive knowledge of PHP/MySQL necessary
- Detailed handbook with installation & use instructions
- Extensible: the system is developed with the CakePHP MVC framework and features a clean architecture. This means that, if you have web-development experience, the system is easily extensible
Activity Notifications
- A notification system lets you know if there are any new client interactions
- Optionally receive these notifications as emails so you never miss your clients’ feedback
Multilingual Interface
ClientEngage Design Note was built with internationalisation in mind: currently, you can select from British and American English as well as German.
System Requirements
In order to be able to use ClientEngage Design Note, you must fulfil the following system requirements:
- Apache 2 HTTP Server
- Preferably with mod_rewrite enabled
- PHP with a version of greater than PHP 5.2.8
- MySQL with a version of greater than MySQL 5 (i.e. with InnoDB support)
- Preferably a subdomain/domain for use with ClientEngage Visitor Voice
- Safe mode: off
- GD Library for image manipulation
- Finally, the PHP PDO extensions have to be installed
Changelog
22/04/2013:
- Public release of ClientEngage Design Note v1.0.1
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