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| Me (Rif Kiamil) talking about AX2012 in London |
Wireframing
As I came from a coldfusion background with FuseBox, I did all my wireframing in coldfusion based applications. Not done this since 2004, plus we used a tool called DevNotes with it. If you have a place to host coldfusion you can try http://sourceforge.net/projects/wireframetool/
Here some text about how I was sold on page by page wireframing
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Showing your client something early on is vital to the success of your project. Is it possible to show them something within a few minutes after you shake hands? Absolutely! Use a wireframe.
A wireframe for a web application is a way to take notes in a very structured way. Instead of drawing boxes and arrows and notes on your legal pad, you can brainstorm by actually creating a clickable application right in front of your client.
It doesn't actually do anything, but it demonstrates the flow of what the application will do. When we wireframe, we're simply trying to understand the user flow.
Each page in the wireframe contains a couple sentences explaining what will be on that page in the
real application. You can get as detailed as you'd like, but expect some of the ideas to change over time. Your client(s) won't know to ask you to change something until they see it. The sooner you can get them to make change requests, the more likely you'll be on the road to creating a successful software project.
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Mockups
Two tools I have played around with for mockups. To me mockup more visual, where wireframe should be more simple (text on a page with hyperlinks)
Balsamiq
This tool super easy, has a free version also and anybody can use it. Runs on Flash and can also work offline. Plus huge amount of add in into the product.
http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups
SketchFlow from Microsoft
This tool complex, but can deal with collecting feedback from your client, customer, end user.
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Sketchflow_Overview.aspx
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