In my experience, irise is incredibly difficult to use (to give you an idea of how difficult - I have a BS in Computer Systems and an MS in HF in Info Design and have worked in software for 10 years, so I'm pretty technical and adept at learning software quickly), has a very steep learning curve, the product does not behave the way you would expect it to, simple functions are not so cleverly hidden away so that what should take you a few minutes can take hours. It is very frustrating to use. However, with it, you can create what appear to be fully interactive prototypes that can wow your stakeholders and get buy-in from executive management. However, there is absolutely no code behind it. Although you can tie screen elements (controls) to requirements, this doesn't work well for us, as the tool really isn't made for extensive documentation and allows no formatting besides an outline. We basically have had to resort to creating the irise simulation, then spending several more days or weeks creating a UI spec which our web writers and UAT can actually use. These groups were very unhappy interacting with irise and there was a lot of pushback. For fully interactive simulations, be prepared to spend hundreds of hours on something that would take days in Visio. This tool is basically programming lite, but even more or at least just as difficult because the tool never behaves as expected and important functions and features are extremely hidden, while other important ones just aren't available in this tool. For example, to select a table to delete it, you have to know that in the bottom right of the tool (in the status bar location), there is a tiny breadcrumb that shows the table > table row > table cell (except the default for these names are obviously not nearly as intuitive), and you have to click table to select the table. It will look on the screen like the table's selected, but ou can try to delete the selected area (which is actually just the cell or row, but there is no way to tell visually) to your heart's discontent, and never will the tool provide any feedback besides not doing what it's been told to do, it won't say something obvious like, "hey, you have to select the table itself to delete the table, right now the cell is only selected". Additionally, I spoke to others in my alumni group from near Boston and all but one of those colleagues who had dealt with irise said that their company eventually discarded it due to the steep learning curve, dissatisfaction with the tool, no code to show for all the effort (absolutely no HTML code is generated by all that work, so designers/developers have to start from scratch) and relatively low ROI.
Courtney > Is anyone here famililar with iRise? It seems similar to Axure. > http://www.irise.com/products/2007_tours/index.php > Jennifer Hoppenrath | SeniorInformation Architect | Avenue A I > Razorfish I direct 206 816 8497 | cell 206 724 3307 > > \ > ________________________________________________________________ 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
