Mark-Up

This evening I watched a demo of iRise, the prototyping tool developed by the company of the same name. Here are some quick thoughts I took away.
The tool seems easy to use. Drag and drop screen and scenario painting looks straight forward. I can see how quickly you could develop a fairly deep prototype. It […]

Until I heard about Axure last week I didn’t know about any tools out there for creating prototypes. But in the last week, I’ve learn the names of two others. The list I’m keeping currently includes:

irise.com
Axure.com
Serena Composer

How did I miss all these before? Please leave a comment if you think there are others that should […]

If anyone has used Axure for prototyping, I’d be interested in hearing about your experience. I’m particularly interested in the ability to use a library of templates (like protokit) as a base.

Luke Wroblewski discusses the benefits and drawbacks of “mockups” (or we could assume “prototypes” as well) in his latest article on UX Matters, Live by the Mockup, Die by the Mockup. The article is a nice summary of ideas many of us have been discussing about the benefits and drawbacks of prototyping. But his conclusion […]