Microsoft

Thermo Microsoft
Name Pidoco Balsamiq Pencil OmniGraffle Pro Visio Pro Photoshop CS4 Illustrator CS4 Fireworks CS4 Dreamweaver CS4 Flash CS4 Flex 3 Pro Powerpoint 2007 Axure iRise Pro Expression Design
(codename) Expression Blend 2
2

Software de Not released yet –

Yes, there are You can do With some
Design de Amazingly simple Bitmap + Vector but from Great prototyping Think process,
This can’t really be Practical and Gold standard for Gold standard for countless HTML whatever you want programming Microsoft’s
One liner Interfaces Gráficos Cool! and powerful but I still don’t get experience on the tool for the earnest Why? large teams, … but Microsoft’s Flash
a Firefox addon! business-like bitmap tools vector tools toolkits out there, – total interactive experience this Fireworks
para Wireframes drawing it… beta I have high product manager why?
but I still love it flexibility rocks!
interactivas! hopes

Ramp up time nenhum none minuscule small small very large very large medium large huge medium large negligible very large very large very large large
knowledge of knowledge of a little more than a little more than
Other expertise required não é necessária none none none none none (for this) html, javascript, css programming programming none none none none
bitmap tools vector tools Flash Fireworks
Supports interactivity sim nope nope nope nope nope nope nope yes oh yes! oh yes! yes! okay… yes I think I think yes nope
Full lifecycle product (rough to rough – not really a
sim rough only rough only yes somewhat professional professional yes yes yes sort of rough only yes yes yes professional
spec) visual tool
subjective, but for
Fun to use sim absolutely! yes yes somewhat somewhat somewhat rendering is poor yes yes yes! no no no no no
me yes
didn’t try – too
Stopped with
tired to go on –
had to find easier than flash Blend 2 – I hope
opened the
Ease of creating a mockup of Construção através drag and drop and had to download javascript tree because of built-in didn’t find tree didn’t find tree the argument for
no tree stencil! straight-forward from scratch from scratch no default tree! no built-in tree medium no tree interface and
tree navigation de Drag&Drop populate Yahoo stencils control and figure tree, but still not immediately immediately these tools is not
started clicking
out how to use automatic “MS Office
around and just
integration
closed it
Time to build mockup of tree
15 min 15 min 1 hr 1 hr 30 min 1 hr 1 hr gave up gave up gave up 1 hr 1 hr 2 hr gave up gave up gave up didn’t try
navigation
difference between difference between
Quirky? não nope somewhat nope nope Illustrator and PS Illustrator and PS average nope not really nope nope nope not really not really don’t know don’t know
can be confusing can be confusing

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