/Should lead to yet another tool, Visio or OmniGraffle, if so what is recommended on the MAC OS side?
What's stopping you from creating the prototype boxes in XHTML + CSS? It has the added advantage of meaning that once you've got your layout, you've also got your document structure. Just add the content and remove the "border: 1px solid black;" properties and you're done.
Agree with David completely. Additional benefits of the XHTML/CSS prototype approach:
- you end up with a fully navigable prototype that IMO is more effective in getting clients to understand and approve the deliverable
- a functional prototype is also more effective in figuring out the most appropriate navigation schemes
- if you are the ia and are working with a designer, you will provide clearer design input
- once you are done, you don't have to throw away your work and move on to creating the site, the site is a living prototype, like David said - add content and CSS and you're done
- prototypes are meant to change and be refined in iterations - it certainly is much easier, faster and reliable if you are using XHTML/CSS, preferably with a templating system or ideally a CMS (see http://www.livestoryboard.com/Tour/storyboarding-prototyping-for-the-web.html for example), which would update all navigation, links, etc.
Take a look at this presentation - slide 44 specifically discusses "the ideal process" - First Things First: IA and CSS http://natek.typepad.com/blog/2004/07/web_visions_pre.html
best, Iva
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