[Sigia-l] Wireframe/Prototyping tools (was RE:IntelligentsignsatMicrosof t)

[Scott McDowell]

Hi David,
 
I've been using iRise for about 2/12 years now and it is by far the most
robust product in this space, it has a true simulation engine which no other
product in the market has, including Composer or OptimalTrace, iRise also
includes a Requirements Management server that takes the simulation to the
next level which for our clients is one centralized document for all
requirements.  The great thing is that we've have reduced over 12 separate
documents into one iRise deliverable thus our business owners and everyone
else in the life cylce only deals with one document/source of requirements. 
Let me know if you are ever interested in seeing a side by side comparison. 

 
In the meantime you can read up on iRise at www.iriseonline.com I run this
so there is no influence by iRise and post the good and bad.
 
s-

 
On 8/22/06, David Carruthers <dave.carruthers at gmail.com> wrote: 
hey Jonathon

JBB
> > > Of all the tools on the market today, I'd say Axure has the most 
> > > promise as an "IDE for IAs"...

Ziya
> > I'm curious about your endorsement. Is there more to it in
> > action than what appears at their site?

We've just bought an axure license and i'm really impressed with it. 

It's no slower than using visio or freehand, or any of the other many
many many tools out there that have become semi-standard.

The ability to create wireframes/prototypes not bound by physical page
sizes, in real HTML, with annotations/documentation, interactivity on 
the page showing states etc means i can communicate my ideas far more
quickly with both clients and the technical team.

And when working on improvements to an existing site, rather than
something newly designed, the ability to screen grab import large 
chunks of existing pages, then set up styles to dovetail in the newly
proposed elements speeds up idea generation/destruction alot. Letting
you see what doesn't work far more quickly.

The output to Word document is quite clunky, but not useless. You 
can't press a button and forget about it, but you can press a button
and produce a document that will do a lot of formatting work for you,
and be very usable with a bit of tinkering.

I realise that all of this can be done with other tools (ref: your 
fireworks/word combo), but none gathered together in one tool so far
(i say this as someone who had high hopes for freehand flash outputs,
and used visio HTML outputs a lot, never used Omnigraffle)

caveat: I am probably still in honeymoon period with it, yet to find 
it's many and variate flaws and have only used it on smallish projects
so far which need a quicker turn around and using an in house
development team. It'll get a bigger test soon with a far bigger site,
and external development team. 

It's not perfect, but it is a really useful tool, and steadily
improving/seeking feedback.

dvc

p.s. i'd love to try iRise, but it's cost does seem prohibitive.
around 20x the price of axure i think. 
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