[IxDA Discuss] Prototyping with Adobe CS3

[Fred Beecher]

On 1/8/08, Miguel Peres <m.peres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> To get prototyping "rapid" we make use of a custom component library that
> act like a set of Visio-stencils and if an interaction needs a component
> that is not there, we build it from the ground in an extensible way so it
> can be later used in other prototypes.


Cool! That's what I was hoping for!

In my personal opinion flash is a
> very good tool for prototyping, however, unless you are prototyping basic
> "click and go" applications which can be very easily done with a few
> command
> lines, you must have at least one person with strong actionscript skill in
> your team to get things done "rapid".


...aaaand that's what I was afraid of. That's why I haven't gone down this
route before. For prototyping to be truly rapid, the prototype needs to be
strongly tied to the UXP deliverables and it must require little special
knowledge to implement.

I guess I'll just hang out and wait for Thermo to see what that can do for
me. : )

F.