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Which program do you prefer for prototyping an enterprise portal system and why (see list below.)?

November 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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interaura asked:

Macromedia/Adobe…
3dx
MS Office Pro (Visio…)
VS.Net
other?

I would LIKE the prototype to function interactively AND serve as the foundation for future build-out, but those are not priorities. Priorities are speed (including execution and learning curve,) stand-alone product (writable to and launchable from CD-ROM,) and layered presentation (big picture with implementation benefits, down to user interface with interactive details.) Cost is not a factor: I already own versions of product lines listed above. Time is a factor: I bought these products at student prices (when I was a grad student) but now find the choices confusing and too time-consuming. I am most familiar with Visio: UML and VisualBasic therein. I do own Macromedia Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX, but not Director. I was on a team in the 1990s that prototyped a computer game using Director, so I have a sense there are simpler paths to realizing my presentation than Visio. Animation is important.

Thanks in advance

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 piotr_z_from_poland // Nov 11, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    I prefer Abobe Creativ Suite 2, Golive is most usefull tool for me.

  • 2 Tex // Nov 14, 2008 at 5:25 am

    Flash 8 is the way to go with-out a doubt (yea, you’ll need to upgrade). It is incredible how Macromedia/Adobe have expanded it’s capabilities. I personly like Director but I think it’s on it’s last days due to expanded capabilities of Flash (and yes, Director now is allot better than it was back in the 90s).

    If you already own Flash MX, play around with it and get a good idea of if you are capable of creating what you want with it. (I know that it is from my own experiance . . . I’m a multimedia developer). You can create stand alone exicutables. As far as starting from a disk just create a text file with the following in it:

    [autorun]
    open=programName.EXE

    and save it to the root of the disk with this name “Autorun.inf” make sure the exicutable is in the same root as well.

    Visio does not sound like the right program for what you’ve mentioned as its strengths are diagrams. You need a developer platform. .net is a very capable and proabably the most powerful but the learning curve is huge in comparison to Flash. Go with Flash, it’ll be here today and way down the road.

    Also look for Flash Developer forums, there are a ton for components and reusable code to snag.

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