I developed three SharePoint intranet sites and used Adobe Muse to do the wire framing. The only draw back was printing the wire frame tree. The pages stick to a grid and the layout ends up being very wide. I printed to PDF and edited the layout to fit 11x17" pages. The Director want to review and mark up on paper. 

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On Feb 05, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Lane Halley <[address removed]> wrote:

Hi Friends,

Sometimes if you want to create wireframes that are editable by other people, using a common denominator tool is a good choice.

I've made a lot of wireframes in PPT, the drawing tools are surprisingly good for the purpose. Keynote also makes it pretty easy to make clickable prototypes that work really well on a tablet. I think the strongest argument for using PPT or Keynote is that they are more often available to everyone at most enterprise companies. The more specialized tools (Balsamiq, Axure, InDesign, Omnigraffle) require the company to purchase more SW licenses and are most likely found on the computers of designers, not PMs and other business people who are the "customer" for the wires. I like democratic tools because it encourages everyone to get involved in making.

BTW - I've started using more collaborative, cloud based prototyping tools when I have a team willing to try it. Tried MyBalsamiq and wasn't super happy with it because it felt like the collaboration features were tacked on as an afterthought. Trying a sample project with Invision now and like it, would be interested in hearing other people's opinions/stories.

Cheers,

   -lane

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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Yingying <[address removed]> wrote:

I know some people use Keynotes and it works very well. PPT works fine too if the wireframes do not need to be too complex. PPT has great animation transitions, and you can make areas clickable too.

I wouldn't be surprised if people ask you to do it, but PPT sounds somewhat old fashioned though.

Yingying

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Has anyone else run into this? 

 

Someone recently asked me to do this, I as puzzled and confused. And this was at a LARGE entertainment company.

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Some of my best friends use PowerPoint. :)

On Feb 5, 2014, at 9:28 AM, lynn <[address removed]> wrote:

Hi Antuanet,

You had me, until "This person will be presenting Wireframes in PPT."  Dealbreaker!  --lynn

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