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Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by Review of 16 Prototype Tools | toddwarfel.com

Review of 16 Prototype Tools | toddwarfel.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:52:47 +0000

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Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by Interactiondesign Blog » Blog Archiv » Review of UI prototyping tools

Interactiondesign Blog » Blog Archiv » Review of UI prototyping tools — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:39:55 +0000

[...] Wilson of Dexo Design has done an excellent review of available UI Prototyping tools and provided tables comparing attributes including how fun they are to use, time to ramp up, and [...]

Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by Brent Morris

Brent Morris — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:52:17 +0000

I use Axure myself, after using Visio and Powerpoint for a while.

Also @Chris Gielow and @Stéphane Bergeron, if I’m understanding you right their already is that feature. It’s called the Style Editor and appears on the far left side of the text formatting toolbar (with Axure RP 4.6 that is)

Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by Stéphane Bergeron

Stéphane Bergeron — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:48:20 +0000

@Chris Gielow

Your Style Guide idea for Axure is fantastic. Did you pass it on to the Axure people? If you post in their forum, Victor will certainly respond and take the idea into account for a future version.

Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by Henning Grote

Henning Grote — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:36:45 +0000

Hi,

very nice article, I love the one-liners.

BTW I have just started an petition to Omni to get them considering (at least) if it would be possible for them to develop an app for interactive prototyping.

Maybe it helps, if other people sign it.

http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?p=51014#post51014

Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by Chris Gielow

Chris Gielow — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:59:05 +0000

In my nearly 14 years as a professional designer I’ve used Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Director, iRise, Visio, Photoshop, Illustrator, and of course Powerpoint.

Recently, my team took a fresh look at what was available. Here are some of the dimensions that were important to us:

1. It provides wireframing, IA and prototyping capabilities.

2. All stakeholders can use it. For me, that means my human factors engineers, interaction designers, product managers and developers. To succeed, it needs to be considered "better than powerpoint" in ease of use, speed and portability.

3. It forces low-fidelity, promoting rapid iterations and disposability. Key, because what we really want is paper-prototyping, with the efficiencies of digital workflow.

4. It’s low enough cost that all stakeholders can justify owning a copy. (That’s dozens of people.) Remember, paper is our competition!

5. It can be used for any UI platform–not just web/HTML, but embedded/handheld products too.

In the end, we chose Axure, and we’re quite happy with it. It has proven to be an excellent competitor to Paper, Visio and Powerpoint.

My dream tool would be one that integrates a Style Guide tool as the UI control library. The default style-guide would be all of the standard UI controls in low-fi, wireframe format. Then you could drop in your skin/customized controls and with the flick of a switch, flip between low and hi-fi versions of your spec.

Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by R.Seiji » links for 2008-11-16

R.Seiji » links for 2008-11-16 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:00:45 +0000

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Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by Michael Tuminello

Michael Tuminello — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:07:43 +0000

Definitely think you gave Fireworks short shrift. Although I am admittedly biased as a long time user, it seems to me like “I don’t get it” sort of disqualifies you from reviewing it. There is indeed a difference in working in FW vs other tools if you are used to them, but spending the time to sit through a lynda.com tutorial should clarify how things work.

Also I didn’t understand the “rendering is poor” comment. That seems out of date to me - I wonder if your review is based on an earlier version…

Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by Anup

Anup — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:56:08 +0000

Thanks. Interesting. I wouldn’t say Axure is that bad as you have implied (One liner: “Why?”). We have created some rich, interactive, mockups using it. I admit doing a tree is a pain, though! Its certainly not for high quality prototypes, and that is fine for us…

Comment on Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools by 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools | Konigi

16 User Interface Prototyping Tools | Konigi — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:42:18 +0000

[...] User Interface Prototyping Tools Russel Wilson of Dexo Design has done an excellent review of available UI Prototyping tools and provided tables comparing attributes including how fun they are to use, time to ramp up, and [...]