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title: "GUI Magnets – Prototyping User Interfaces with Simple Magnets"
date: 2009-05-13
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# GUI Magnets – Prototyping User Interfaces with Simple Magnets
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[GuiMags](http://guimags.com) was a vendor booth at the STC Summit that caught my attention. I'm often running into people who want me to create WordPress templates to match their websites. Creating these templates is somewhat tedious for me, and it can take 1-2 days of work and haggling with CSS to get it to look right. These GuiMags guys gave me a glimpse at a simpler model.