Interaction Design Tools

Multiple track audio in Morae 3 ?
Ripul Kumar
I have tried unsuccessfully to get Morae 3 to record separate audio tracks for participant audio (in one language)...

September 2008

5-second tests, now automated, and brilliant
Robert Hoekman Jr, Jim Jeffers
So, Jared Spool came up with the 5-second test<http://www.uie.com/articles/five_second_test/> . Then I wrote about it in Designing the Obvious <http://www.rhjr.net/dto> . Then a...

Hyperbolic Trees
Dennis Morrow, Janet M. Six, Larry Buck, Itamar Medeiros
Hi Lauren, Have you looked at PersonalBrain http://www.thebrain.com/#-47 from The Brain Hope this help :D Dennis Morrow Director, Information Architecture & Usability Web Associates desk. 408.550.2960 cell. 408.621.5084 webassociates.com -----Original Message----- From:...

August 2008

Anyone tried balsamiq?
Duncan Brown, Fred Beecher, Robert Hoekman Jr, Terry Fitzgerald
Hey anyone tried this? http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups I have been using Illustrator for wireframes, but my company uses Confluence and Balsamiq plugs in to...

Wireframes: Illustrator/Indesign question…
Meikel Steiding, mauro pinheiro, Charusmitha Ram, Ron Edelen
Hi everybody, I have a question regarding your Illustrator/Indesign wireframing workflow. In the upcoming months I am going to create...

Interaction Design Specification Sites
Chris Ryan, Jeff Lippiatt, loislewis, Fred Beecher and 4 others
There¹s been a fair amount of discussion here about documentation formats and software used to produce wireframes, prototypes, and so on....

July 2008

Pencil: open-source wireframing Firefox add-on
Liou Yamane, pauric, greg and 4 others
Hi there, I just found out about Pencil, an open-source wireframing tool that is available as Firefox addon (and standalone application)....

Pencil Project
Dan Saffer, pauric, pauric, Andy Edmonds and 9 others
Anyone played with this? <http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/> "The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams...

June 2008

Open source wireframe software
oliver green, Todd Moy, pauric, Ben Steele and 12 others
Hi All, Any recommendations for an open source wireframe tool? Something that is similar to Axure - the license is too expensive...

iRise sues Axure for "patent infringement"
Fred Beecher, Todd Zaki Warfel, Alexander Baxevanis and 70 others
All, I really hope anyone considering iRise reads this before making their final decision. We're a fairly small community and in general...

Any suggestions for training on MS Expression Blend?
Benjamin Ho, Pace Koenig, David Fitzgerald, David Fitzgerald and 6 others
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on companies for training on the MS Expression Blend application? I've taken a...

May 2008

Fireworks CS4
Will Evans, dave malouf, Adam Korman, Jennifer Quigley and 4 others
I have noticed over twitter two very different takes on Fireworks CS4. Who has downloaded the beta? Who is trying it...

Printer Recommendations Needed
Will Evans, Bill Fernandez
So here is what I am looking for: Color Laser Printer for UX guy Home office - so a huge monster won't...

Omnigraffle IA stencils
Will Evans, Chris Ryan, Jeff Gimzek, Jeff Gimzek and 9 others
Hi all, For once - a non-snarky Will post. As of this week, I have made the complete switch to Mac...

April 2008

Printing Axure flows
Eugene Kim, Fred Beecher, Shaun Bergmann and 5 others
Question for Axure users: Is there a way to print out user flows from the prototype output without it messing up?...

IxDA Digest Translation
Jeff Howard, Oleh Kovalchuke, Eduardo Ortiz, alok nandi and 13 others
Based on Alexander's comment in the "Interaction Design in Europe" thread last week, I decided to try feeding a...

Card Sorting Software
Thomas Marks, Jeff Howard, Jessica Enders, Pedro Custódio and 4 others
As a primarily e-commerce/call center based store, we do not have much opportunity to utilize customers for in house...

Online scheduling tool?
Sarah Kampman, Jennifer Berk, Jarod Tang, Milan Guenther and 3 others
Does anyone happen to know of an online tool I can use to schedule participants for a usability test? I've used...

Rapid HTML Wireframing without Dreamweaver
Oleg Krupnov, Todd Zaki Warfel, Todd Zaki Warfel, Todd Zaki Warfel and 8 others
While I feel quite confident with HTML and CSS, it seems to take a bit of pain to use Dreamweaver for...

Can Visio generate UI documentation
Mark Pawson, Will Evans, Patricia Garcia, diarmad at ixdstudio.com and 2 others
Does Visio 2003 have the ability to generate UI Spec docs and HTML pages the way Axure can. The company that...

Corners, edges and multiple monitors
Mattias Konradsson, Kim Bieler, Dye, Sylvania and 7 others
Hi all, Using corners and edges of the screen for different things can as we all know be a great timesaver. However...

Shared whiteboard: Summary
Jonas Löwgren, Petroff, Greg
Dear list, I received several useful suggestions in reply to my recent query about shared whiteboards for distributed design sessions....

March 2008

Use Case / Requirements Management Tools
Jeff Axup, phanita sudana, Pam Migliore and 2 others
Hi Everyone, My company is currently looking into tools to manage use cases and requirements. Since these terms can mean a wide variety...

IxD: Mac Resources
John Gibbard, Scott McDaniel, Matthew Nish-Lapidus, W Evans and 24 others
Hi people, I have decided to get myself a new laptop (economic crisis? what economic crisis) which, happily, will be a MacBook...

An Idea about Drawing Wireframes
Oleg Krupnov, John Gibbard, Richard Howard, Todd Moy and 10 others
All drawing and diagramming tools that we use to create wireframes are based on shapes or widgets. You drag a widget...

Browser safe zone?
Rick Castanho, Charlie Salazar, Brandon E.B. Ward, Jeffrey D. Gimzek and 5 others
Hi All, I recall having once downloaded a photoshop file that had mock layouts to help design web pages within browser safe-zone....

February 2008

Shared virtual whiteboard: Suggestions?
Jonas Löwgren, Lon Hetrick, Jeff Howard, Alexander Livingstone and 7 others
I am looking for a setup to share a virtual whiteboard in geographically distributed design sessions. NEEDS-TO-HAVE: - runs on Mac...

prototypes are software and belong to engineers?
David Malouf, Christopher Fahey, Andrei Herasimchuk, Todd Zaki Warfel and 33 others
I was reading that transcript that Gabriel pointed to earlier today: (link: ) here is the last question's answer: "Coop[er]: Bad idea. Prototypes...

January 2008

Good Rant on lack of Good GUI Design Software
Jim Jeffers, Andrei Herasimchuk, dave malouf, W Evans and 19 others
Just thought I'd share: http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2008/01/23/mucking_up_the_fireworks.php Jason Santa Maria posted an excellent rant on his blog about the lack of a solid...

Desktop GUI prototyping tools...
Pankaj Chawla, Bruno Figueiredo, Russell Wilson, Gloria Petron and 10 others
Hi Any recommendations on GUI prototyping tools specially for desktop application prototyping. I could find a good list at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypingTools and am looking...

November 2007

What tools do you use for prototyping?
Todd Zaki Warfel, Beck Tench, Chad Hutchinson, Dante Murphy and 81 others
What prototyping tools are in your toolbox? Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. ---------------------------------- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: todd at messagefirst.com AIM: twarfel at...

August 2007

What's the best Computer for Designers?
lcarrascoza at comcast.net, Robert Hoekman, Jr., Mark Schraad, Joseph Selbie and 70 others
I could really use suggestions on the best type of computer to buy for web design. I'm hesitant about buying an...

Practical books for HCI practitioners
oliver green, bjminihan at nc.rr.com, erpdesigner, W Evans and 23 others
Hi all, I am compiling a list of "practical" books for the following three areas: 1) Understanding user needs 2) UI design 3) UI...

July 2007

Drawing and Sketching on Tablet PCs
Jay Morgan, Henrik Olsen, A S, Bryan Minihan and 8 others
What applications do you tablet PC users draw and sketch with? I use a tablet pc at work - latest is...

June 2007

UIs for Uploading Images
Mitchell Gass, Chris Bernard, Doug Anderson, Oleh Kovalchuke
First, thanks to everyone who responded to my question about UIs for creating fill-in forms. This is a great group! I'm...

UIs for Creating Forms
Mitchell Gass, Will Parker, Dmitry Nekrasovski, Robert Hoekman, Jr. and 2 others
I'm looking for examples of UIs that allow people to create their own fill-in forms or modify existing forms. One...

May 2007

Fireworks CS3
Robert Barlow-Busch, Ari Feldman, Mike Hickman, Jeffrey D. Gimzek and 3 others
Despite today's excellent point that our most important tool is our brains, I'm wading in with a few quick remarks about...

Which is the most used tool for UX nowadays?
Gustavo Gawry, Ivo Domburg, Dan Saffer, David Malouf and 19 others
Which one have you been using? Visio, Axure, Intuitect (plus Visio), OmniGraffle, Smartdraw, iRise, Powerpoint... I have been using Axure and Powerpoint... --...

Mac IA Tools
Gustavo Moura (Criação - BSB), Trip O'Dell, Gustavo Gawry, Anu Leponiemi and 8 others
Hi All, I'm looking for IA tools for Mac, what you suggest me? I need tools for card sorting, wireframes, html prototyping,...

Web Site Monitoring & Analytics
Jon Strande, Anthony Armendariz
My apologies if this is a bit off-topic... I'm looking for a single Web Site Measurement package (not hosted, preferably) that will...

"Cutting Edge" Web Design References
Stephen Dondershine, Jon Strande, Joseph Tate, Eric DeLabar and 2 others
I'm looking to brush up on what are considered to be "cutting edge" techniques for web design--especially in terms of layout...

Wireframe Templates in Visio
Daniel Gifford, Ari Feldman, Baron Lane, Alder Yarrow and 10 others
Hello, I have been actively following this group for months. Very good resource. I am interested in examples of using Visio...

April 2007

Adobe makes Flex SDK Open Source
Trip O'Dell
This is huge - its going to kick RIA development into high gear. Very smart move by Adobe. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/ 200704/042607Flex.html Trip ...

March 2007

browser compatability: Safari
John Vaughan, Todd Moy, pauric
Just posted a small website that works okay on Mozilla and IE, but exhibits a non-functional artifact on Safari. ...

February 2007

A Sketch & Simulte Tool from MIT
Alok Jain, C. Collins, Dan Zlotnikov, James Landay
An interesting tool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNTgglPbUA Some version of this should help prototyping efforts in the innovation process... interesting from interaction design standpoint as well...

Any experience with Axure RP?
Greg Jagiello, Ari Feldman, zipdisk drive
Good day - I'm a partner in a small interaction design shop in San Francisco. I'm currently doing all prototype...

viewing Microsoft Project files on a Mac?
Lisa deBettencourt, Kiesel, Jeffrey (User Experience), Adrian Howard, Robert Barlow-Busch and 12 others
One of the struggles I have in this cross-platform world is that there a few key Microsoft applications that simply don't...

Pros and Cons of Wireframing tools
Kiesel, Jeffrey (User Experience), Henrik Olsen, Stewart Dean, robertnero at northwesternmutual.com and 33 others
Hi All, My team is evaluating wireframing tools, and I would love to get some feedback from this list. Things tend...

interactive visualization techniques/tools/products
David Malouf, Jorge Arango, Bret Hekking, Peter Boersma and 3 others
I'm working on a project right now that requires us to be able to act on a lot of data. We...

January 2007

Usability testing software for Mac?
Josephine Choi, Jay Zipursky, Josh Viney and 2 others
Hi everyone, My company's working on a new Mac product that we will be doing usability testing on. We use Morae...

Rapid Prototyping Tools
Janna Cameron, Ari Feldman, Henrik Olsen, Ari Feldman and 35 others
Hello, I am looking for a tool that would essentially allow me to make a "paper prototype" that I can share with...

Communicating Design/ Deliverables
Vishal Iyer, pauric, pauric and 17 others
How do those of you who don't actually write code that is eventually used in the build (both front-end and back-end)...

HCI software tools/applications
oliver green, Shep McKee
Hi All, Can anyone please point me to some exhaustive resources that list various HCI software tools available for the following categories:...

Usable framework
jackbellis.com
If I were to create a new web application [it's for a friend, really ;) ] for "typical business purposes,"...

December 2006

Does anyone know if DENIM is being supported?
pauric
I've used it in the past, it doesnt scale at all which would tell me that there are some fundamental issues...

Online surveys
Dave Cronin
Hi All, I'm planning a quantitative study (to augment one of our more typical qualitative studies) and looking at using a...

October 2006

Prototyping tools for mobile game app.
Wendy Fischer, Jacco Nieuwland, Barbara Ballard and 2 others
I am researching prototyping tools for mobile games that are developed in J2ME and Brew. I need to create...

method for keeping track of employee UI suggestions?
Gabriel White, Brian LeRoux, Gabriel White, Oleh Kovalchuke
David, We had to deal with this exact issue, and in the end we opted for an Excel-spreadsheet based system that was...

September 2006

Technology for User Research
John Monberg, Peter Merholz, mark Schraad, Barbara Ballard and 4 others
I have a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies and much of my research is ethnographic. I am now...

August 2006

Illustrator vs Fireworks
jackbellis.com, Jonathan Rea, Luke Ball, Baldo and 26 others
I know that Fireworks has come up occasionally in the discussion of prototyping tools, so hopefully this isn't too off-topic,...

WYSIWYG WEB Management Tools
Mayuri Naik, prady, Santosh, Dmitry Nekrasovski and 2 others
Hi, My company maintains more than 45 websites/portals and we are in the midst of streamlining these to 8 core portals. Our...

July 2006

Looking for a camcoder
Maral Haar, Jay Morgan, Ryan Nichols and 4 others
Hi everyone, I am looking for a camcoder to record users in the hospital. As I might need to do some night...

maintaining a style guide
Pashmina, Joe Davidchik, Håkan Reis
Hello, My UX team is currently looking for a good solution to manage our styleguide, which is our specs and models maintain...

June 2006

More on Prototyping Tools...
d|b, Robert Reimann, Robert Hoekman, Jr., Scott Bower and 4 others
At Teague, we use Flash or Director for just this sort of thing (prototyping desktop applications and consumer electronics devices). One...

May 2006

More on Prototyping Tools...
leo.frishberg at exgate.tek.com, Robert Reimann, Robert Hoekman, Jr., Scott Bower and 4 others
Colleagues, Perhaps I've missed something in all of this discussion; feel free to point out where this has already been discussed. Most of...

March 2006

open source community message boards?
Simon King, Daphne Ogle, Dan Saffer, Bob Doyle and 2 others
> Does anybody know of what open source community message boards are > available? I"m looking for something that can...

February 2006

Sketching with PowerPoint? Was: How is MS doing Prototyping?
Fredrik Ampler, Gabriel White, debroise xavier and 3 others
As many others on the list we use ppt for demos/prototypes, often building the screens by combining photoshop images with ppt's...

October 2005

CMS recommendations
Ockler, Sarah, David Heller, Reese, Dean, Rich Rogan and 13 others
Can anyone recommend a good CMS with the following requirements/constraints: -Site is built with MS SharePoint -Need versioning, permissions etc. -Site is personalized...

September 2005

Rapid prototyping tool
sajid saiyed, David Heller, leo.frishberg at exgate.tek.com and 6 others
Hi, I would like to discuss about Rapid Prototyping (RP) tools. I know this has been discussed before, but my question...

August 2005

Design docs
Sudhindra Venkatesha Murthy, Peter Boersma, Lada Gorlenko, Daniel Szuc
Hello all, I am in the process of creating a document that a UI designer/information architect would ideally extract from and record...

June 2005

Screen recording
michelle, michelle, Tery Griff, vutpakdi at houston.rr.com and 6 others
Hey all: I'm looking for screen recording software, similar to Matchware's ScreenCorder, which I've used in the past... http://www.matchware.net/en/products/screencorder/default.htm ...but available for the...

April 2005

Usability analytics tools?
aelman.861302 at bloglines.com, Navneet Nair, Jared M. Spool
So my role on our design team has recently been tending towards data-mining and analytics. I've been able to get...

What software to create documentation and deliverables? What are you using?
subimage interactive, Dan Saffer, Wendy Fischer, vutpakdi at houston.rr.com and 3 others
Just a quick question to the other list members out there that's been bugging me lately during my proposal writing, persona...

Switching apps/GUIs ( was RE: Adobe takes over Macromedia)
David Heller, Todd Warfel, Dan Zlotnikov, Andrei Herasimchuk and 2 others
Switching is an interesting discussion. The question I would ask anyone making a switch is, "did they always have the choice of...

March 2005

Five Lenses: Towards a Toolkit for Interaction Design
Peter Merholz, David Heller, Alain D. M. G. Vaillancourt, Lada Gorlenko and 17 others
While you're all wasting your time discussing memetics and "selling" of your methodology, Tom Erickson does it again with an...

December 2004

When to bring in technology?
Marc Robichaud, David Gee, David Heller, Listera and 3 others
What about the data model or database design? Should we be considering that separate from the technology? Sometimes I think the data...

Software for requirements management
David Heller, Alain D. M. G. Vaillancourt, Pradyot Rai, Adam Korman and 11 others
Hey there folks, What are people using (especially for in-house types) for requirements management throughout the entire product management lifecycle: 1. input...