15 Desktop & Online Wireframing Tools
Like most things today, the world of interaction design moves quickly. Although a pen and notebook may suffice when it comes to simply jotting down ideas, planning a series of website screens can sometimes demand additional precision and cohesion. This is where today’s wireframing tools come in. Engineered to make the design process as intuitive as possible, these tools allow you to construct a visual representation of your interface.
10 Awesome Online Tools Your Small Business Should Be Using
1inShareinShare1 crowdSPRING is a small business – our team totals nine people (and a really cute chocolate lab puppy named Lucy). As a small business, we leverage online tools to help us run our business efficiently and inexpensively. We are selective – we do our homework and always compare competitive products within any category. Before we make any decision, we typically look at the top two or three finalists and thoroughly evaluate them before deciding what to use.
17 Great Wireframing Tools for Web Designers
“Time is of the essence” is a bold statement that definitely applies to any design career. We all get paid by the hour, so the faster we can work, the more money we can make. This means that being able to get up and running on our design work has become a necessity. This is where wireframing comes in. You can get a general idea of what will work and what doesn’t, saving you time when developing websites. It allows you to focus on the content of each page, making each page serves its purpose to the best of its ability.
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files
Advertisement Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has the basic elements of a Web page: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some generated content, which gives you, your clients and colleagues a simple visually oriented layout that illustrates what the structure of the website will be by the end of the project and that serves as the foundation for any future alterations.
25 Best Business Software Tools and Web Services
Anyone who says their business "runs itself" probably owes a great debt of gratitude to a small army of software applications and Web services that tirelessly feeds the machine from behind the scenes. From creating and storing documents and staying on top of e-mail to keeping the books and getting teams working together, it takes a lot of code to run a business, or at least to run it well. But setting up your company isn't as easy as just fishing apps out of a barrel. You want the best you can get, and at a price that isn't through the roof.
Are these really the 10 best intranets of 2012?
This month saw the publication of Neilsen Norman Group’s intranet design annual. Over the past 12 years, this annual snapshot has charted the evolution of intranets from the unloved stepchild of the web family to business-critical tool. Intranetizen takes a look at some of the key findings in this year’s publication and finds the conclusions challenging. Continuous improvement One of this year’s winners, Staples, brings home the award for the second time, joining an elite band of multi-award winners. NNg argues “these organizations recognise that intranet design is never “set and forget”… Instead of perpetually sustaining their first winning designs, these companies continued to progress”.
16 Design Tools for Prototyping and Wireframing Article
This article was written in 2009 and remains one of our most popular posts. If you’re keen to learn more about wireframing, you may find this recent article on free online wireframing tools of great interest. In recent years the number of tools available to help you document and design your web site has just exploded. It seems that we all need a wireframing or prototyping tool at our fingertips (at least in the design arena). So in order to save you the hard work required to find one, I’ve assembled this list. It can be expanded upon, so if you use an unlisted application, please let me know and I’ll add it to the list.
40 Small Businesses and the Online Tools They Can't Live Without
There are a million tools online and it can be tough to decide which ones are right for your business. Many times you will find 5 things that all look like they do the same thing. We decided we would ask small business owners what tools they used and could not live without for their small business.
Intranet Design Annual 2012: 10 Intranets With Great Usability
Get an inside look at the 10 best intranet designs of 2014 — this 314-page report is the only place to find this information, with 144 full-color screenshots of before and after designs, which are usually protected behind the organization’s firewall. Comprehensive case studies and detailed best practices keep you up-to-date on current trends and challenges that you can use to improve your own intranet design. The winning intranets were chosen by expert review based on design and usability, from a field of hundreds of nominations. Article: 10 Best Intranets of 2014
35 Excellent Wireframing Resources
Advertisement Wireframing is one of the most valuable parts of any web design project. It can save a designer tons of time by hashing out the details of a site’s architecture, functionality, and content prior to actually starting a visual design. But if done inefficiently, it can end up costing more time and can even create bigger headaches for both the client and the designer.
Google+ Now Lets You Merge Your Personal, Work Profiles
Google announced on Thursday that Google+ users with a profile attached to a regular Gmail account and a work-related Google apps account can now blend the two together. When Google Apps gained Google+ support last October, Google promised a migration tool was on the way. Nine months later, it's finally here.
Case study – The British Council
Feature posted 26 Oct 2006 in Volume 10 Issue 2 Case study – The British Council
23 Free, Vector Icon Packs for Social Media
It's massive freebie time again! We've rounded up a huge collection of social media icons in, you guessed it, vector format. These designs are simple, clean, and versatile. They're easy to integrate into your next app, interface, blog, web design, or anything you have in the pipeline that needs to connect via social networking.
