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Introduction
“Wireframing is one the best method to streamline your development process. But there are many tools and methods to choose from, when creating a wireframe. From to easiest one (hand sketching on paper), to much more complicated (desktop prototyping software, web-based prototyping software, mind-mapping software, etc). Which one is the most powerfull? Maybe any of them is just useless?” (Karol Zielinski, July 2009)
Software
(random collection, none is endorsed by 18:12, 26 November 2010 (CET))
- Free drawing
- Pencil and paper
- Flow chart drawing software like DIA (A Visio-like tool)
- Presentation software like OpenOffice presenter
- Commercial drawing
- Photoshop
- Interactive Multimedia
- Fireworks
- Flash
- Catalyst
- GUI Builders / CASE tools
- Flex (use Flash Builder just for the GUI outline)
- Commercial interactive mockup
- Justinmind interactive wireframes using its extensive gallery of components and interactions. - Justinmind Prototyper (Wikipedia)
- ConceptDraw PRO WebWave Plug-in
- Balsamiq Mockups, a fairly easy to use and powerful tool it seems. See the documentation
- Justproto
- Mockup Screens.
- LucidChart (Wikipedia)
- ProtoShare (Wikipedia)
- Axure (Wikipedia)
- DefineIt from Borland
- GUI Design Studio
Links
Indexes (links of links)
- Gui Prototyping Tools (good list in the original wiki, wow), up-to-date when retrieved 18:12, 26 November 2010 (CET).
Comparisons and reviews
- Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools, November 7th, 2008 by Russell Wilson
- Graphical user interface builder (Wikipedia, includes a list of GUI builders)
Introductions and further reading
- Wireframe Mockups is a collection of articles of interest. Quote (11/2010): Template:Wireframes, Mockups and Prototypes are an integral part of any requirement gathering and software development. This site aims to provide some intelligent discussion points on the above topics.
- User interface design(Wikipedia)
- Software prototyping (Wikipedia)
- Paper Prototyping (Wikipedia)
- GUI Builder (Wikipedia)
- storyboards (Wikipedia)
- Prototyping software – you don’t need it!, July 2009, by Karol Zielinski.