I think my original post was rather piece-meal, so let me backtrack to my original dilemma, which I feel is a common one, to see if I can't elicit an more informed response.
We're doing more and more rich media here at Razorfish and probably elsewhere, and the old wireframe > comp > prototype methodology is proving more difficult, because while wireframes are great for static websites, they really don't express the various interactions that a rich media environment can provide. Having 20 wireframes to show the various states of one page is also cumbersome, and if you think presenting standard wireframes to clients causes eye-glaze, just try one of these. Wireframes for these projects then become more of an internal tool, although we still have to deal with these same limitations while communicating with technology and design. My last project of this type, the designers ended up making up a lot of stuff and UX then cleaned up a lot of wonky interactions afterward with last minute user testing thrown in, which worked but isn't the most efficient way to work, and in environments with less collaboration between UX and creative, could end up even worse. (The site just goes live that way.) I've been trying to find tools which will allow us to create 1) dynamic "wireframes" to emulate rich media, and 2) early prototypes to help guide us prior to launch. Azure and iRise both seem to do well in the latter, but poorly in the former, with one being considerably more expensive. I've toyed with just developing in interactions Flash, but that may not be realistic. I have seen a new Adobe product called Thermo (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Thermo ) that seems to promise to solve both dilemmas, but it hasn't been released yet. Has anyone found a better solution to this? I appreciate your time. Jennifer Jennifer Hoppenrath | SeniorInformation Architect | Avenue A I Razorfish I direct 206 816 8497 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ---- From: Fred Beecher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: IxDA Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:53:11 AM Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interactive prototyping On 7/29/08, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We aren't allowed to discuss @xure and iRi3E on this list because of the > legal issues around one of the companies being a *^%$# and suing the other. Oh come on, Will. : ) Discussions of both tools are perfectly valid. The issues were only with people posting links to patents. If we're not doing that, it's all good. With that out of the way... Yes, iRise and Axure are similar. What are your questions exactly? I don't know iRise in detail, so I'll let someone else actually answer them. : ) - Fred ________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
