[Sigia-l] And then there's Inspiration

[Todd R.Warfel]

I'm looking at ways to improve my overall workflow. I'm also looking 
for something that works better for this type of stuff than Visio. For 
me, that's Illustrator and Freehand.

I know a lot of people who have become accustom to Visio (mostly in 
corporate or mandated type environments). And yes, I know people who 
actually find Visio to be a great tool for this type of stuff. I'm just 
not one of them and I know a lot more who feel the same. For those who 
have a choice, or run their own firms, I find that more of them are 
doing this in Illustrator/Freehand than Visio. It seems to be a growing 
trend.

One of the reasons why Mac compatibility probably hasn't been an issue 
is that this field was predominantly dominated by Windows earlier on. 
That's starting to shift. Personally, I'm seeing a lot more Mac users 
in UE in the past two years. Additionally, I've had several clients 
mention the growing number of Macs in the UE community. Not that it 
really matters to me, as I'll continue on my platform of choice either 
way.

Regardless of what you use, be it Visio, Freehand, Illustrator, 
Inspiration, etc. the use of templates, objects, symbols, etc. is a 
good practice to have.


On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 4:11 PM, David Heller wrote:

> Ok, I don't get it.
> Besides 2 issues I have never had a problem w/ Visio and those two 
> issues
> alone are no reason to leave it. MS is just as buggy as everyone else
> putting out software on a regular release cycle.
>
> Issues:
> 1. PDF problems. I was hoping Acrobat 6 was going to take care of 
> them, but
> it didn't. For some reason PDF doesn't like Martlett.
>
> 2. Mac compatibility. I haven't worked any place in 5 years where this 
> has
> been a problem.
>
> The HTML rendering capabilities of Visio are quite amazing and when 
> you want
> to take paper prototypes and bring in some clickable prototyping it is 
> very
> useful to do and very easy to make.
>
> Its use of background pages instead of templates is also good and 
> finally
> the stenciling is also very good.

Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel

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