Comments on: Prototyping with Excel – weird or wonderful?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:01:55 +0000

When I were a lad, we used to do wireframing in wool using a loom. You might not have thought it were the right tool for the job, but really, the thought that went into those things was phenomenal. And you ended up with a nice rug afterwards.

By: Kevin Arthur

Kevin Arthur — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:19:31 +0000

I haven’t looked at the book, and you may already know this, but I think this isn’t really so weird… It’s a follow-up book to Arnowitz’s previous one, kind of in the pattern of computer science books that have a follow-up edition “with C++” for examples, or stats books with examples in Excel or whatever.

And Excel really is surprisingly versatile… not that it’s necessarily best for prototyping but there’s probably a low barrier for people who already use it.

By: Jon Hobbs

Jon Hobbs — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:21:42 +0000

Yeah, I looked a t Protoshare but it didn’t look quite as good. Might give it another go.

By: Harry Brignull

Harry Brignull — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:19:45 +0000

I’ve been using Axure for the past year or so on and off. It’s OK if you acknowledge its limitations and don’t try to stretch it. A few web apps have been popping up recently that have similar functionality, e.g. Protoshare…

By: Jon Hobbs

Jon Hobbs — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:10:24 +0000

Harry,

We’ve recently started using Axure RP to prototype all our websites. Wondered if you’d used it or had any opinions?