Bernard Boekhold and Sytse Govert were sharing their experience using Axure to design wireframes, flows, and prototypes. It looked quite neat, and fairly easy to learn. I particularly liked the ability to automatically produce interactive prototypes and customizable documentation from wireframe specs. However, I fear that it might be too restrictive and limited for creative designs.
In comparison, Martijn pointed out his collection of Visio macros, as well as Jacco's work on swipr, a toolset to create integrated interactive design deliverables from standard Visio files. So far, I've mostly been using Visio stencils of Jesse James Garrett's Visual Vocabulary.
At EuroIA 2007, Alexander Jongman will be presenting his research on UiaML (Universal information architecture Modeling Language). I'm hoping to attend a guest lecture at Hogeschool Utrecht next week and find out more about his work.
Somebody mentioned, that the folks at Cap Gemini's UX group are using a great wireframe tool, too, but it sounded far to expensive for a freelance designer like myself. (Still it'd be neat if I could wriggle an invitation for a demo out of my contacts at Cap Gemini - hint, hint)
Other handy links include:
- IA Institute collection of tools
- Collection of templates and toolkits by Dey Alexander
- Nick Finck's Stencils for Information Architects
- Visio template by Forum One
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