There is a great discussion on Fi's blog about wireframing. A good
explanation and comments loaded with resources/examples to build
libraries.
Christoph posted -- "If it helps you to get started, Yahoo has
released the stencils they use internally for IA, just google 'yahoo
visio stencils'. They are available for Visio, Omnigraffle and other
formats. They are a little bit too graphical and html-oriented for our
purposes but still a very complete set."
http://www.thinkswedish.com/blog/#ContentHolder:feed=blog&Entries:
0=entry+1=973
:) Ron
On Aug 19, 2008, at 10:16 PM, Charusmitha Ram wrote:
Hi Meikel,
I use InDesign for my wireframes and I am really quite happy with it.
However, I do not use linked Illustrator files. I create all my
assets in
InDesign and save them as library items. I have categorized all my
assets
and grouped them into 6 libraries which also include certain screen
types. I
love using libraries because the assets are labeled and organized
well. I
can also see thumbnails of my assets which I can drag and drop onto my
InDesign document as i'm working. If I make any change to my asset,
I can
update the library item with the new changes.
A few limitations of using this method are:
1) If you are working as a team and using the libraries as common
assets,
you have to notify other team members to update the library with the
changes
made. An InDesign library (.indl) cannot be updated via Version Cue
server.
2) The updated asset in the library will not automatically update
the asset
previously used in the current document or older documents. So, the
updated
asset can only be applied for future use.
Again, this method is only for very rough wireframing and not for
hi-fidelity. However, the wireframes come out very clean and
consistent.
When using for presentations, just hide the annotations and call
outs (which
you place on a layer) when publishing the PDF. An InDesign document
can be
re-purposed for a number of things and is flexible in many ways.
I've also
heard that it can also be published as HTML.
Hope this is useful.
-Smitha Ram
Senior Interaction Designer
Thomson Reuters | www.thomsonreuters.com
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