[Sigia-l] Tool standardization (was the great Visio debate)

[infoarchitect at ourbrisbane.com]

Quoting David Heller <hippiefunk at hotmail.com>:
> You know I am not satisfied w/ Visio. I think it falls way short. But
> omnigraffe cannot be an alternative solution b/c it is only on Mac. Like it
> or not 95% of the world is using pc. Personally I'd love to work for a
> company that allowed Macs ... Didn't happen and isn't going to soon b/c of
> my specialty in Enterprise software.

(just as an aside) I actually brought a demo PowerBook (MacOS X) into work one day - within 3 
months half of my developers bought PowerBooks and brought them into work.  They preferred 
programming in the UNIX environment over and above Windows - and when they were done they just 
transferred their work to the Compaq desktop they were assigned.  Weird for a Mac (traditional 
domain of the designer - arch-nemesis of the software engineer who always argued vehemently 
against Macs), eh?

> I do have one feature request for Visio though ... Pixel dimensions instead
> of Inch dimensions. I am designing a screen after all. ;)

Also, I think it has been lightly covered, but none of the tools mentioned are IA/UX tools.  
These are visualisation tools - not aimed at our wants/needs, so we can't expect them to be 
everything for everyone (although, being Microsoft, this argument could be considered 
defunct.  I'm sure feature creep will see pixel dimensions come in there somewhere - your 
challenge will be to find it amongst all the other additional features that are added). ;) 

Best regards,

Ash Donaldson
User Experience Designer