Protoyping

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Permalink Reply by Stacia on February 9, 2009 at 11:18am

If you have Acrobat, you can make a PDF of the Visio images and add interactions in Acrobat. It's not super easy, but it's your best shot if you already have Acrobat. Also, PowerPoint can be used for interactions. Or, just make a simple HTML page and use Dreamweaver to make the Visios into an image map, linking up the buttons and such.

Hope that helps.

Permalink Reply by Kmett on February 9, 2009 at 3:14pm

You can try looking here: http://iaapps.com/

They list out some prototyping tools categorized by your OS.

In my case Windows XP: http://iaapps.com/index.php/component/mtree/Prototyping/XP

Permalink Reply by Rajat Bhardwaj on February 10, 2009 at 12:52am

Hi Stacia,
sounds intresting to me...how can we do this in Acrobat?
Can you send me any such example.

Thanks,
Rajat

Stacia said:

If you have Acrobat, you can make a PDF of the Visio images and add interactions in Acrobat. It's not super easy, but it's your best shot if you already have Acrobat. Also, PowerPoint can be used for interactions. Or, just make a simple HTML page and use Dreamweaver to make the Visios into an image map, linking up the buttons and such.

Hope that helps.

Permalink Reply by Gessica Lee on September 23, 2009 at 5:00pm

You can also look at iRise but it is very expensive.

Permalink Reply by Rajat Bhardwaj on September 29, 2009 at 12:41am

Thanks Gessica.I have tried IRise.....its definitely a good option.

Permalink Reply by Patrick Homan on September 30, 2009 at 9:35pm

Hey Rajat

I'm not the biggest fan of Microsoft products, but they've just released their Expression Suite 3.0 which has a new Prototyping tool called SketchFlow (or Blend+Sketchflow). I actually won a copy at a recent South African User Experience Forum event, and from what I've seen so far, it looks really nifty for rapidly creating interactive prototypes (of course, and as usual, in typical Microsoft fashion, one just needs to spend some time getting used to the fiddly interface).

Here's what they say on their site:
SketchFlow is a new feature in Expression Blend 3 that enables rapid prototyping of web sites. SketchFlow helps designers, developers, information architects and account managers sketch, wireframe and prototype user experiences and user interfaces.

Have a look at the application's video overview here:
http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/1eea789b-c69c-4b09-a13...

There are many alternatives out there, but this one seems pretty good to me, albeit a tad pricey.

Hope this helps :)

Cheers

Permalink Reply by shankar krishnamoorthy on October 1, 2009 at 7:12am

We use Visio for prototyping. Initially, it was little difficult for the team to learn and do. Now, our usability engineer loves it and uses it and (publishes to PDF) very well to share the thought process and wireframes with the product manager and end users. Its been extremely helpful and reduces lot of iterations.

I have tried another tool - iPlotz. Very easy to use tool.

Permalink Reply by Rajat Bhardwaj on October 6, 2009 at 3:27am

Thanks alot Patrick, Ill give this a try for sure.

Permalink Reply by Tom Coleman, CUA # 2007-1319 on November 2, 2009 at 1:30am

I like Fireworks.

Permalink Reply by Tina on January 28, 2010 at 10:23am

I always use Fireworks and Flash for prototyping and early usability testing.

Permalink Reply by Caitlin Gannon on August 20, 2010 at 12:05pm

I'm a big fan of Axure, but if you want something else, I saw a demo of HotGloo recently that looked interesting.
http://www.hotgloo.com/

Cheers,
Caitlin