Web prototyping

Just a quick note to remember. I’ve struggled so many times to get some good-enough web prototyping tool… just for specification purposes, mainly. I’ve played with plain-old HTML, powerpoint, visio, some specific-domain tools…

I intend to note down my findings, just trying to ease myself next time I’m forced to start the search. So here there are some quick links:

Visio, the interaction designer’s nail gun : My current favourite. It allows to design the features, without style-messing (leave that to a real designer). Background templates ease incremental development of your prototype. You can also export to a clickable HTML prototype, if you want.

Denim : A domain-specific tool for “paper prototyping” dumped on to the web. Funny… includes screen-navigations and screen definition, and generates a clickable prototype. Checkout the demo-result here .

A Visio wireframe stencil .

Another visio stencil.