Stewart, Axure, iRise, FlairBuilder + Graffle/Visio, etc. etc. . . . all potential options, though much agreed, no single 360-degree tool for UX folks yet. My colleagues in classical architecture and urban planning, both industries older than ours, tell me that, in their opinion, there is no such tool (or suite) for their work, either. Hmm. - Andrew On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Stewart Dean <stewd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nasir and folks, > You slightly dash my hopes as Catalyst being a one stop solution to > producing diagrams and interactive prototypes. From what I've seen the idea > of producing just an interactive prototype and then having that used to > build a real world version of the app has problems that documentation of > the > flat kind often solves. I've not got around to using Axure in anger so was > hoping this would be the next logical port of call. I've looked at > expression and it appears to have a different cultural approach to > interactive design than I'm used to. > > I'm looking for a mix and match approach that can be flexible for > different > kinds of audiences and interactivity type. Do you and others feel it may be > expecting too much to able to create sitemaps, process flows and working > prototypes in one place and one online document? > > Stewart Dean > > > > > > 2009/6/3 Nasir Barday <nbarday+i...@gmail.com <nbarday%2bi...@gmail.com> < > nbarday%2bi...@gmail.com <nbarday%252bi...@gmail.com>>> > > On our conversation about this on Twitter, he said that in a similar > > scenario with MS Expression (no integration with Visio), he found that > this > > lack of round-tripping didn't matter in the end. Which makes me say, why > > not > > take a risk and start prototyping in Catalyst? If I'm going to do that > > longer term, though, we're gonna need some better drawing tools in > there-- > > an Alignment and Spacing panel, for one, and tool behavior that more > > comprehensively matches Fireworks, or, hell, any other Adobe app. > > > > On that note, I wonder how much longer we need to wait until Fireworks > CS5? > > Less than a year [1]? A boy can dream, can't he? > > > > - Nasir > > > > > > -- > Stewart Dean > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
