[IxDA Discuss] Prototyping with Adobe CS3

[Fred Beecher]

On 1/9/08, Kim Bieler <kimbieler at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> I hope this isn't a dumb question, but are there any prototyping
> tools (Visio, Axure, Fireworks, etc.) that actually give you a usable
> website at the end? I'm just wondering if it's worth spending the
> time applying all this functionality to a prototype, if it's all
> going to have to be re-coded afterwards.


Well, Thermo will fit your bill there, if you're trying to make a Flash/Flex
site. But it hasn't been released yet, so...

But I want to bring up another point... I think it's very important that a
prototype *not* be turned into the functional site. In a prototype, you
really shouldn't be building all sorts of functionality. You should be
faking it. Changing design takes so much less time and money than changing
functional code that to intend a prototype for eventual production negates
the money-saving value of prototyping.

F.