Comments on: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) http://unify.eightshapes.com Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:34:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Nathan Curtis http://unify.eightshapes.com/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-1183 Nathan Curtis Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:03:29 +0000 http://unify.eightshapes.com/?page_id=19#comment-1183 Our surveys reveal that Visio and Omnigraffle are the two most popular tools in the IA community. We work in InDesign because: <ul> <li> Cross platform: large UX teams, particularly at larger companies, can't control to just one platform</li> <li> Great for vector-based drawing, particularly as good as you need it to be for wireframing.</li> <li> Most modular (snippets, linked files including PDFs). While most drawing products offer some sort of modularity, InDesign is tops because of it's cross-document linked files as well as it's relationship to Photoshop, Illustrator, and others.</li> <li> Powerful styles (type, objects, tables, TOC, etc). No other product is even close. And once you start using styles to this depth, you'll never wanna go back.</li> <li> UX “Designers” include more than just IAs! InDesign is a design product that produces documents that enables designers - visual, interaction, artchitects, and more - to work from the same product.</li> </ul> Our surveys reveal that Visio and Omnigraffle are the two most popular tools in the IA community. We work in InDesign because:

  • Cross platform: large UX teams, particularly at larger companies, can’t control to just one platform
  • Great for vector-based drawing, particularly as good as you need it to be for wireframing.
  • Most modular (snippets, linked files including PDFs). While most drawing products offer some sort of modularity, InDesign is tops because of it’s cross-document linked files as well as it’s relationship to Photoshop, Illustrator, and others.
  • Powerful styles (type, objects, tables, TOC, etc). No other product is even close. And once you start using styles to this depth, you’ll never wanna go back.
  • UX “Designers” include more than just IAs! InDesign is a design product that produces documents that enables designers – visual, interaction, artchitects, and more – to work from the same product.
]]> By: Josh http://unify.eightshapes.com/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 Josh Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:22:34 +0000 http://unify.eightshapes.com/?page_id=19#comment-1180 Why are these templates in a software application that is not web centric? Just curious...maybe I have missed something all along about Indesign? Can you explain the reasoning about choosing InDesign to be the platform of choice for this tool? Why are these templates in a software application that is not web centric?

Just curious…maybe I have missed something all along about Indesign?

Can you explain the reasoning about choosing InDesign to be the platform of choice for this tool?

]]> By: Simon http://unify.eightshapes.com/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Simon Thu, 21 May 2009 09:38:18 +0000 http://unify.eightshapes.com/?page_id=19#comment-284 any chance of doing a CS3 version for us poor boys who don't have the finances to upgrade to CS4 just yet? many thanks any chance of doing a CS3 version for us poor boys who don’t have the finances to upgrade to CS4 just yet?

many thanks

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