[Sigia-l] Life after Visio

[Adrian Howard]

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 03:11  pm, Gothelf, Jeff wrote:

> I agree with Anne's praise of Visio. As is often the case, many
> organizations try to find alternate (to Visio) means to creating IA
> deliverables that work best for their teams. This experience prompted  
> me to
> write a comparison article back in January on the virtues
> (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/ 
> practical_applications_visio_or_html
> _for_wireframes.php)  of Visio versus HTML for creating, specifically,
> wireframes though my points carry through to other IA deliverables.
[snip]

My Visio complaints aren't about any lack in functionality, but in  
usability. Given the choice between Visio and HTML for creating  
wireframes I'd pick Visio without a second thought.

You can almost always make Visio do what you want, it's just *harder*  
than it should be (e.g. those "very well hidden" palettes Anne  
mentioned).

I find I'm much faster working in OmniGraffle than I am in Visio. Not  
because OmniGraffle does more, but because it makes it makes the tasks  
I need to do easier. Less time spent wandering around myriad palettes  
and menus. More time making stuff. As ever YMMV :-)

Adrian