I use Fireworks all the time for wireframing and prototyping. We have a single product that we created/rework features for, so we've created some reusable stencils (or symbols as Fireworks call them) for our most-common design elements.
Fireworks has a lot of great stencils for higher fidelity prototyping, including OS GUI elements like Todd mentioned above, but for lower-fi you'll have to create some of those yourself. But it's really simple to create those. The tricky part (and I use Fireworks CS3 on OSX, so maybe Adobe fixed some of this in CS4) is, especially when using Javascript to extend symbols, sometimes Fireworks crashes and doesn't tell you why. Here's a blog post I wrote on the subject: http://development.mumboe.com/?p=43. My suggestion, if you have the Creative Suite, is to use Adobe Version Cue and Bridge to manage the files so you can version and check in regularly, just in case of a crash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45590 ________________________________________________________________ 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
