Dan,
Thanks for your reply. The creative team all use macs hooked up to the network so incorporating it into our infrastructure isn't a problem. Only the UX team will use the Visio/Omnigraffle files, so whilst compatibility is important it's only really us opening previous revisions of wireframes. I also love being able to create clickable PDF's as quickly as Omnigraffle allows. Wireframes are often shown to the client and providing them with a PDF and a suggested journey very often perfectly illustrates the concept we're trying to get across. The other reason for going mac based is productivity; I've been using the Polypage jQuery plugin (http://code.new-bamboo.co.uk/polypage/) to create interactive wireframes that sometimes then continue as a foundation for the actual build templates (ex-developer!). I'd like to build these in TextMate (mac) as it's far quicker with textMate 'bundles'. I'd also like us to start using Silverback for quick user-testing sessions rather than setting up Morae. Whilst not as comprehensive as Morae it will allow us to quickly and simply get people in, run the session, then export and evaluate the results. Thanks, Nik From: Dan Brown [mailto:brownor...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 February 2009 12:03 To: Nik Lazell Cc: IXDA list Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] A business case for switching Mac Nik, A couple thoughts: How much do you have to share files with other members of your team? Do your developers read the Visio files or can they work from PDFs? If collaboration is important, the latest version of Graffle does open Visio files nicely. For the documentation consulting side of our business, we usually recommend the Adobe suite. The learning curve is steeper, but you'll get more power in the long-run. Using CS4 to create reusable wireframing and design components, our company has saved our clients thousands of dollars just by being more efficient in producing deliverables. And CS4 is cross-platform. The tougher business case may not be the application you use for your artifacts, but instead for supporting the Mac and hooking it up to the existing infrastructure. (I don't need replies telling me this is easy. I know it's easy. I'm just saying it may be a tougher case to make to the Powers That Be.) -- Dan _______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
