[Sigia-l] Life after Visio

[Gothelf, Jeff]

In the organizations that I have worked for (mainly mid to large-sized
professional services companies) the argument that repeatedly arose within
the UX groups was the question of HTML-based wireframes (using your tool of
choice) versus Visio-based ones. This was the spawn of the article.

Now perhaps the use of the term "status quo" was a bit over-the-top but
based on my experiences, it seemed that in these types of organizations
coupled with the type of clients we were dealing with, these were the
primary choices for prototyping. Note that I do mention the non-ecumenical
nature of the article in acknowledging that not all tools are reviewed in
the article and that IA's do use other "wireframing options."

Yes, I have a bias towards Visio but I am open to new tools that can improve
the design process and quality of deliverables. I am an equal opportunity
IA.  

I am curious though. Does it seem like the smaller design shops (and UX
groups within smaller organizations) and freelancers tend to stray from the
Visio/HTML options leaning more towards the tools that Ziya mentions? Or
does it have nothing to do with size of the organization and is simply the
IA's preference?

[Jeff]


-----Original Message-----
From: Listera [mailto:listera at rcn.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:54 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Life after Visio


"David Carruthers" wrote:

> We've started using Freehand MX a lot recently, which has both of the
above
> and much more. I'm surprised it hasn't come up more often in this/other
tool
> discusions...

Well, it isn't quite the status quo, is it now? Only girlie men would use
something other than Visio...why bother!
:)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 


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