I've been using Axure (http://www.axure.com) a lot lately. I have done some testing iRise. It is slick, it has lots of features...and it's stupidly expensive. I also think it's a tool directed at socalled business analysts who work in environments where there are no IxDs or dedicated UX staff, so they end up mucking around with a complex and, as I said, waaay expensive tool.
For my money, I'd rather just develop in the target dev tool if I were spending that money. But I feel we as IxDs have other tools for developing prototypes for usability test, interaction design problem solving, and proofs of concept for other competencies to engage with. Axure or Fireworks (plus now Catalyst?) or Dreamweaver or whatever can provide good-enough and fast-enough protos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44163 ________________________________________________________________ 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
