[IxDA Discuss] [Iai-Members] What tools do you use for prototyping?

[Bill Fernandez]

At 11:49 AM +0100 11/6/07, <p.coopmans at d-construct.be> wrote:

But... I'd love to have a tool that combines Omnigraffle, Fireworks 
and Axure... and that works on a Mac as well as on a pc. ;-)


Peter:

For many years I've used a program that to some extent meets the 
above goals:  Canvas.

o It runs on Mac and Windows.

o It lets you easily mix and match  vector and raster objects.

o It has a goodly assortment of graphic design effects and control 
(It's like a mini drafting program combined with a mini Photoshop).

o It also has good word processing and page layout capabilities.

o It easily lets you create documents as long as you like (I 
routinely create 70-page UI specs with it).

o It exports multi-page documents to PDF (so that the rest of the 
world can read them).

o It lets you create hot-spots on your pages, link them together, and 
export the lot as a combination of HTML and images: so you can create 
a graphically rich, statically linked sets of web pages for use a 
wireframes or prototypes.

It's got some annoying bugs, and it doesn't do all the things that 
the programs you mention do, but I always find myself going back to 
it because it combines in one program so many feature sets that I 
want to apply to the same document.

YMMV,
--Bill



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