Wireframing and prototyping tools
November 24, 2009 · Posted in UX, Uncategorized
Apart from the obvious candidates (visio, omnigraffle etc) there are loads of new wireframing and prototyping tool available now.
At Lbi I’m going to be running a mini evaluation session. I was wondering if any one has used one or more of the following:
- Axure
- Balsamiq
- Caretta Studio
- CogTool
- Connect-A-Sketch
- Coutline
- Creately
- Denim
- EasyPrototype
- Flairbuilder
- FluidIA
- ForeUI
- Gliffy
- HotGloo
- Ixedit
- Oversite
- Inkscape
- iPlots
- iRise
- iZotz
- Jumpchart
- Just in Mind
- Justinmind Prototyper
- JustProto
- Lovely Charts,
- Lucid Spec
- Mockingbird
- Mocklinr,
- Mockup screens,
- Napkee
- Pencil,
- Photopro,
- Pidoco,
- Project Draw,
- ProtoShare
- Qmockup,
- Serena,
- Simulify,
- SketchFlow
- Wireframe sketcher,
- Tinderbox
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I’ve used Balsamiq and LovelyCharts.
I liked Balsamiq, but it just didn’t feel comprehensive enough to do a whole project. I think its good for sketching ideas before taking them into a more ‘tooled up’ application.
I didn’t like LovelyCharts – it looks like it’ll do everything you want, but in the end its hard to organise, has confusing or hard to get to controls and was just frustrating to use.
I use OmniGraffle and I love it. The only gripe I have with OmniGraffle is it thinks it knows where to draw connection lines between objects better than I do… grrrrr
Hope that helped a little!
Gemma
Hey Ben,
No Omnigraffle! That is one of my favourites, along with Visio!
I’ve played with Balsamiq and it’s quick and easy to sketch up prototypes, but (when I used it) has a limited stencil set.
It seemed to be good for beginner/non-UX users but not powerful enough for practitioners.
My €0.02!
Alex… I think Omnigraffle, Viso are pretty industry standard now so was intresed to see if any one has used any of the new tools. Thanks for the feed back on Balsamiq, wierdly I know a few UX people who don’t like to due to the face it uses comic sans.
I know that we’re both big fans of sketchy wireframes and Comic Sans, to the extent that I now have a soft spot for that font!