Mobile phone prototype design –visio

From moving to the mobile Internet, has always wanted to write about the prototype design of mobile phone some common tools and design methods, through their own from the Internet to mobile Internet some of the common tools used, can achieve a variety of ways to do mobile phone client product design, to achieve the best results. Hope for the design of mobile phone clients some help. A lot of software for prototyping, Axure, Visio, FireWorks, PS, balsamiq-mockups ... (Here are some design tools to download address: Http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypingTools) A series of software can be used in the prototype design of mobile phones, even many people directly with Word to do the prototype design of the phone. What I want to say today is the design and design method with Visio.

Many people refer to Visio as a "universal warrior". Microsoft Visio is not simply a tool for drawing flowcharts, it can also draw intuitive phone prototypes that can be exported directly to the UI and 10243.html "> Visual designers, with documents that can also be given to development."

Visio draws the advantages of the prototype:
1, high popularity. Visio is an indispensable software product, both developers and product managers install Visio on their computers, many times when they install Office on their computer. There is no need to dwell on the importance of Visio, and it is believed that Visio has the highest awareness of these design software.
2, the component library is extremely rich. You can say that Visio starts slow because it has so many things to start with, Visio2010 adds more, and while constantly satisfying the user's process specifications, it also adds an application component to the prototype design to make the prototype design more rapid.
3, excellent elasticity. There's really nothing to say about the flexibility of Visio, and it's the best way to feel flexible in several of your own prototype design software (Axure, Balsamiq mockups, Word, PPT, GUI design Studio, UI design, etc.). At the same time, you can directly put the flowchart next to the prototype to explain, callout text, can lead to the document, can also be exported as a picture, can be directly delivered to the UI design.
4, the process capability performance is strong. Visio must not have been used for prototyping at the earliest, but its most striking feature is its use in drawing flowcharts. Visio drawing process features are also in the product, the intersection of the prototype design, for development, design will be a comprehensive way of integration.
5, complete support for the entire product lifecycle. This is one of the most important things that many designers are willing to use to draw prototypes in Visio. Why Visio can fully support the entire product lifecycle, the product from scratch, must be an iterative process, the continuous product version of the update, the document update, the process of updating changes, with Visio painting prototype, next to attach a flowchart plus instructions, will be a lot of process simplification.
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Visio does have its own advantages in drawing phone prototypes, but there are drawbacks, including interface effects, and interaction flaws.
Visio Painting prototype Disadvantage:
1. Static. This is a very frustrating problem because Visio cannot interact with Axure, only by writing events and prompting languages next to Visio prototypes. It's a static page, or just a picture.
2, too strong and not professional. All said that there are two facets of things, Visio is the same. Because it is too powerful to be professional, Visio can draw flowcharts, and many users directly make Visio a tool for drawing flowcharts. But it can also be found that many users use Visio to draw the prototype of the site, Axure may be, but many people prefer to use "Axure+visio" to complete the "prototype + process" work, each take the director, when the only Visio painting is not professional.
3, the use of relatively high cost. The cost here is focused on human costs and time costs. It's really not easy to make a prototype out of Visio, it took me a long time to do a mobile phone prototype, and not fully express the meaning, unlike axure can directly through the event to express the meaning, and for color matching is not axure easy to use, the second is the cost, to do a decent Visio prototype will take a lot of time , while the time cost of communicating with the UI and visual is increased. Without interaction, the understanding of text increases the time cost.
4. Poor interaction ability. I've always felt that the biggest flaw with Visio is that Visio has no way of being able to go from one interface to another, just like any other software, and it's really bad for interaction. So many designers are reluctant to use Visio as prototypes in this regard.
5, lack of coherence, a large number of text information assistance. The same function can be shown directly in other prototyping software, such as jump boxes. But Visio only through a lot of text information to express clearly, virtually increased the time cost, while the text understanding differences will lead to increased costs.
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Visio is a "universal warrior," but the pros and cons are the same. Visio is no longer a simple drawing flowchart tool for users, but it can also be a prototype design tool. "Each of their own", Visio can also make a beautiful prototype interface. Reasonable and effective use of Visio's own control, while loading some mobile phone design commonly used interface, can be a good expression of product prototypes. It is recommended that if you use Visio as a prototype to design a mobile phone with big screens, such as Android and the iphone, you can make a lot of prototypes.

With two of Axure and Visio prototypes, Visio takes a lot of time, but when you have a template, it makes your job simpler. Especially for mobile phone demo, you can draw a flowchart with Visio, you can also draw a prototype diagram. Personal preferences, also saw the use of PPT to do mobile phone prototype, the next one can share some of the advantages and disadvantages of using PPT, make the effect of the same lifelike. Whichever looks better, it is the beholder, but one thing is certain, Visio can also make beautiful prototypes.

With the Android prototype in Visio and the prototype of the Axure painting Android, it's hoped to help some prototype enthusiasts.

Axure-android (1) visio-android (2)

Suddenly found that the Android prototype with Visio is great, if necessary, email me (xzwcool@gmail.com).

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