On 7/14/08, oliver green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I need to prototype a concept that is a blend of web based > applications and mobile applications. Is there any tool that I can use > to showcase the concepts for both?
Any interactive prototyping tool should be able to handle both. I'm a big fan of Axure myself, and although I've used it mainly for Web & desktop apps, I've seen a company using it for mobile devices as well. They created a background image of the device and just did their wireframes on top of that image. This worked well for testing people's ability to navigate through the device's IA. I have done a *little* bit with trying to prototype in Axure for hardware myself and I've run into these issues: 1) If you have soft buttons, people testing (with a mouse in a web browser, mind you) will want to click on the soft button labels (on the device's "screen"), not the representation of the physical buttons. 2) If you want to do a hardware prototype, you either need to have a device that can run a Web browser or... 3) You need to hack something together with an external VGA screen acting as a 2nd monitor and plugged into a "real" computer. 4) Again with hardware prototyping, you'll need some way to make pressing the buttons on the physical prototype correspond to mouse clicks at particular locations on the screen. For this, you'll need something like an Arduino: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage These issues will likely apply to ANY interactive prototyping tool you use, not just Axure. I'm guessing it will be even more unlikely that a given device will be able to run Flash than a Web browser (*cough* iPhone *cough*). Take care, F. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
