Jure Cuhalev

1 | ghosttie

November 21st, 2008 at 4:13 pm

I've never used prototyping software, but it would probably make my life easier if I did. Do you know of a Windows alternative to OmniGraffle?

2 | Jure Cuhalev

November 21st, 2008 at 4:20 pm

People often use Microsoft Visio as alternative for OmniGraffle. There's
also a wide collection of more powerful prototyping tools.

3 | Matic Bitenc

November 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm

I use it at work daily for the very same purpose and I can tell you it can be frustrating just as it can be enjoyable. There are some display glitches, for example, you can make a perfect alignment of lines under 500% zoom, but at 100% it'll look as if there's space between. The panes and the default tool settings could be designed much better too, which is somewhat ironic for software used to create interfaces.

4 | Marko

November 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pm

I find all prototyping tools I found so far lacking in one way or other. But worst is probably still better than none.

5 | david_rozman

December 10th, 2008 at 1:28 am

for more interactive prototypes check out:
http://taubler.com/oversite/ and http://www.axure.com/

6 | Shannon T Alston

February 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 pm

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keep it up

7 | patriciad175

March 11th, 2009 at 5:59 pm

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8 | carolynkjones

March 13th, 2009 at 11:55 am

Yes, it's cool, and useful for me
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9 | sharoncfejes

April 15th, 2009 at 9:49 am

This time around, I’m fidelity 401k experimenting with upgrading my paper prototypes with computerized version. Nothing too high-fidelity, just printed wireframes in nice boxes and with a rough copy in place.

10 | tommyms1972

April 16th, 2009 at 7:54 am

To make the whole process easier, I followed a great video from Michael Angeles, Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle, it shows you how to use Actions->Jump tool to create interactive PDF’s that you can use to simulate actual user interaction. It also quickly presents good layout fidelity 401k technique, how you’re supposed to have a Master layer with overall grid and then just create different canvases for new layers. Best spent 5 minutes of last week, watching that.