What are your prototyping tools of choice?

[Richard Price]

I'm thinking of doing a blog post about prototyping tools. Are there any ones out there that I am missing?

 

 

 

 

I gave up on iRise. What a monster and pain in the rear to install. I don't wish that product on anyone.

 

Thanks,

Rich

[Kim Molinelli]

Omnigraffle? Would you consider it a prototyping tool?

Kim

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[Dave Pitman]

You can do prototyping in OmniGraffle with their Actions stuff, not the easiest though.

Also, Bootstrap?

[Richard Price]

That's a good one. I've had my eye on cross platform tool, so that one has never come up. I'd assume it would fit in if it does basic click through wireframe mockups. I guess I'd have to include InDesign in that case too.

 

 

 

 

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[Richard Price]

Dave  - Ha!  I took off Bootstrap and foundations (my fav) since I assumed people wouldn't get the whole CSS/JS framework thing as a valid prototyping solution.  Honestly, I love it for so many uses like RP-ing.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

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From: ux-bookcl...@googlegroups.com [mailto:ux-bookcl...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Pitman
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You can do prototyping in OmniGraffle with their Actions stuff, not the easiest though.

[Travis Stiles]

I've played a bit with Hotgloo a flash-based wireframe creation and click through tool...

http://www.hotgloo.com/

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[Kathryn Whitenton]

These things are growing like mushrooms. 

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypingTools 

We've recently been looking for web-based tools for collaboration, and  tried Protoshare and Hotgloo. Hotgloo seems to have a nice short learning curve, but all the web based tools I looked at have pretty limited support for building complex interactions. 

[Ryan Winzenburg]

I just came across PowerMockup for PowerPoint and an old favorite of mine is InDesign/Unify by Eightshapes.

Ryan

[Richard Price]

 

Thanks all.  Yeah, this is likely going to be an interesting culling process to select viable tools to review.  Hotgloo looks pretty slick though.

 

Cheers

[Richard Price]

 

Power Point... if we haaaaave toooo :) Kidding.

 

 

I will pretty much only design in InDesign with EightShapes, but they didn't have any interactivity until a recent anouncement for I think it's called Blocks. I was thinking about writing something similar, but glad they are doing it. Just think about sticking so close to pixel perfect designs and just another hope or so away from dev tools too.  blocks.eightshapes.com  I'll have to investigate this further.

 

 

 

 

https://github.com/EightShapes/Blocks

[Nickolaus Casares]

+1 for Bootstrap and Foundations. It's a different way of prototyping, but I find it faster in a lot of situations. I also think it's easier to mock up various states. I do wish there was a JS library that could mimic Axure's case functionality. 

Nick

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Richard Price <ri...@ascendinteractive.com> wrote:

[Zac Taschdjian]

I messed around with MS Expression a little. It outputs production-
ready XAML which is nice if you're prototyping Silverlight. My tool
of choice is Axure since it's fast, simple and has a lot of community
support (e.g. libraries) around it. Richard, I agree that Foundation
is awesome, but I think considering it a prototyping tool starts to
blur the distinction between UX and front-end dev. Just my 2 cents.

On Mar 28, 4:38 pm, "Richard Price" <r...@richardprice.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking of doing a blog post about prototyping tools. Are there any
> ones out there that I am missing?
>

> I gave up on iRise. What a monster and pain in the rear to install. I don't
> wish that product on anyone.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>

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[Richard Price]

Cool. Yeah, I was looking at MS Exp and SketchFlow last night. I couldn't
help but wonder how they are going to deal with all these tools and apps of
their own (not to mention the public) built for SilverLight when it has be
deprecated. Doesn't make me want to use their tools.

Ah yes, the age old debate. UX and coding. Let's not go there :)

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[chase courington]

While I have only just played around with it @UXPin http://uxpin.com/
looks pretty cool. more wireframing than prototyping but it says it
can output html. For me prototyping internal projects would be old
fashioned html/css/jquery, you can focus a bit more on the interaction
piece and less on the visual design; and with css3 creating buttons,
transitions, etc. is much faster for me than anything else (although I
haven't really used anything else other than FieldTestApp.com for some
mobile prototyping stuff)
-Chase

[Richard Price]

Thanks! Both look really well thought out. Adding to them to my list.

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