15 Top UX resources for rapid prototyping

I’ve recently completed a chunk of research to shortlist tools that could help our team plan and communicate the user experience (UX) more effectively for PageDo. We have a distributed team – we’re not all based at the same location, therefore we need a tool that help us communicate ideas and concepts when face-to-face contact is not possible.

I’ve listed a number of the tools that made it to our shortlist below. If you’re in a similar situation, hopefully this will save you a few hours searching for the same answers

Mockingbird (wireframing)
Protoshare (wireframing and feedback)
LovelyCharts (charts, workflows and flow diagrams)
Gliffy (flow diagram creation)
Prototype Composer (requirements gathering)
Product Planner (a collection of user submitted userflows)
Wireframing Kit for Google Drawings (rapid UI prototyping templates for Google Docs)
iPlotz (wireframing and UI prototyping)
Pidoco (clickable UI prototyping)
HotGloo (online wireframing)
Balsamiq Mockups (rapid wireframe and UI sketching tool)
Axure (client based UI prototyping tool, Mac & PC)
MockFlow (Collaborative wireframing)
Yahoo UI Design Stencils (for Omnigraffle, Visio, Fireworks, InDesign and Axure)
Coutline (collaborative tool for HTML based prototyping)

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Stephanie

Thanks for list these number of tools .Its really very helpful for us in help us communicate ideas and concepts when face-to-face contact is not possible.You have done a great job by sharing this post with us.I like this.Keep sharing with us.
Peter Severin

I'd like to suggest WireframeSketcher rapid wireframing tool. It's a desktop tool that's cross-platform, with fast and native UI. It can be used for quick wireframes but also for large projects with many screens. You can use version control plugins for Subversion and Git to share wireframes via a repository. WireframeSketcher also comes as a plug-in for any Eclipse IDE so if you are using one - you've just got lucky :)
Matthew Ogston (JobPage.com)

Thanks for the heads up Peter. What are the advantages of Wireframe Sketcher instead of something line Balsamiq?
Peter Severin

Matthew,
feature-wise they are similar. I outlined some differences above. There
are more, like support for storyboarding and screen flows, beautiful
PDFs, better support for large projects. Here's a UXMovement article that talks about some of them.
targetseo

Thanks for your comment Cristian - FlairBuilder is available for both Mac and Windows? I am assuming there is no online version is based on my quick scan of your site?
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brinda_j

MockupTiger is a good html5 wireframe, you can host it on your domain, desktop, switch between hand drawn look, change fonts and prototype dashboard mockups with data
DavidFrost01

Thanks!
Roy Scholten

I just want a portable, foldable scanner-sheet-thing with a scan-to-web button for my pen and paper sketches :)
Matthew Ogston (JobPage.com)

Thanks for the comment Cristian - is FlairBuilder available on both Mac and Windows? I'm assuming there is no online version based on my quick scan of your site?
Cristian Pascu

Hey, you can also add FlairBuilder to the list, as an interactive wireframing/prototyping tool.

Thanks,
Cristian

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