Hi Nasir and folks, You slightly dash my hopes as Catalyst being a one stop solution to producing diagrams and interactive prototypes. From what I've seen the idea of producing just an interactive prototype and then having that used to build a real world version of the app has problems that documentation of the flat kind often solves. I've not got around to using Axure in anger so was hoping this would be the next logical port of call. I've looked at expression and it appears to have a different cultural approach to interactive design than I'm used to.
I'm looking for a mix and match approach that can be flexible for different kinds of audiences and interactivity type. Do you and others feel it may be expecting too much to able to create sitemaps, process flows and working prototypes in one place and one online document? Stewart Dean 2009/6/3 Nasir Barday <[email protected] <nbarday%[email protected]>> On our conversation about this on Twitter, he said that in a similar > scenario with MS Expression (no integration with Visio), he found that this > lack of round-tripping didn't matter in the end. Which makes me say, why > not > take a risk and start prototyping in Catalyst? If I'm going to do that > longer term, though, we're gonna need some better drawing tools in there-- > an Alignment and Spacing panel, for one, and tool behavior that more > comprehensively matches Fireworks, or, hell, any other Adobe app. > > On that note, I wonder how much longer we need to wait until Fireworks CS5? > Less than a year [1]? A boy can dream, can't he? > > - Nasir > -- Stewart Dean ________________________________________________________________ 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
