There's just one issue - my office doesn't have a scanner. Now, that shouldn't be too hard to remedy, but along with my list of benefits to paper prototyping, there are also a couple of drawbacks.
- When there are many states to a given UI screen, it can result in a lot of repetitive drawing
- It can take a long time to sketch detailed layouts of more complicated UI components
This has made me once again curious about UI prototyping tools. I probably last looked at the available options 4 years ago.
To start things off, a coworker discovered Balsamiq Mockups. This looks like a pretty fast and easy to use mockup tool. It's quite possible I could create mockups faster in Balamiq than by hand, and they have a sort of notebook-sketch quality to them - they don't try to look like a real UI, and I like that. It also has JIRA integration (as well as some other issue tracking systems like FogBugz and some wikis), which could be a big win for us if we adopt it.
I'm curious what else is out there. I've read a couple of questions about this on StackOverflow to get some ideas, and WireframeSketcher also looks promising (it's an Eclipse plugin).
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