I Wold like to share our Research and Development story specialty the UX (User Experience) part of it..
When we had started to develop our product back in 2008 (wow it looks ages in ago)
We worked back and force with our product manager trying to create a better user experience but some times .... 90% of the times actually the final UI that our Research and Development department produced was... let's say it straight: Not Usable.
And after redesign the entire Research and Development cycle was lost...
In simple words we we doing Mockup screens with Real Code and Hope for the best....
And as the Quote say: “He who fails to plan, plans to fail”
We didn't fail but we worked extra hours ... many extra hours....
To make the short short...
After many trial and errors , for example trying to use Paint or Photoshop or PowerPoint for Creating screens (All of those are great tools but for their purpose...)
We decided we need a Mockup Tool...
And so it began, 1 week to find the best Mockup Tool...
Here are the Quick Results :
25 Tested tools
10 Created Mockups with variant tools
20 hours spent on searching Google , yahoo, Bing , asking friends on Facebook etc...
In the next week our team started to work with those products 1 in a day.
Won't tell you what we had designed cause those all are our secret features that we plan to release in Next Versions but we had Ended using JustInMind Prototyper - rich interactive wireframes.
The killer feature that the most impressed me is an ability to simulate data driven apps.
So from half a year of Planing our screens and then building them i can see at least 90% cost / time savings and recommend all my fellow developers to use Prototypes prior to developer and let the force be with you :-)
And if you ask what force? I guess is The planing force of JustInMind Prototyper .
When we had started to develop our product back in 2008 (wow it looks ages in ago)
We worked back and force with our product manager trying to create a better user experience but some times .... 90% of the times actually the final UI that our Research and Development department produced was... let's say it straight: Not Usable.
And after redesign the entire Research and Development cycle was lost...
In simple words we we doing Mockup screens with Real Code and Hope for the best....
And as the Quote say: “He who fails to plan, plans to fail”
We didn't fail but we worked extra hours ... many extra hours....
To make the short short...
After many trial and errors , for example trying to use Paint or Photoshop or PowerPoint for Creating screens (All of those are great tools but for their purpose...)
We decided we need a Mockup Tool...
And so it began, 1 week to find the best Mockup Tool...
Here are the Quick Results :
25 Tested tools
10 Created Mockups with variant tools
20 hours spent on searching Google , yahoo, Bing , asking friends on Facebook etc...
After all of those I had narrowed my chooses to 3 Tools:
Won't tell you what we had designed cause those all are our secret features that we plan to release in Next Versions but we had Ended using JustInMind Prototyper - rich interactive wireframes.
The killer feature that the most impressed me is an ability to simulate data driven apps.
So from half a year of Planing our screens and then building them i can see at least 90% cost / time savings and recommend all my fellow developers to use Prototypes prior to developer and let the force be with you :-)
And if you ask what force? I guess is The planing force of JustInMind Prototyper .
