Chapter 6: Integrated Tools for Drawing and Creating Prototypes

Where Chapter 5 looked at tools aimed at creating a prototype from a set of existing images, this chapter looks at tools that also provide some kind of drawing and design capability.

In the previous chapter, we were using other tools to create designs (such as paper sketches, Photoshop, or Sketch); the tools in this chapter offer a more integrated solution. You’ll probably find there are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches here. The clear advantage is that you only have to learn and use one single tool to create your prototypes. The corresponding disadvantage is that there's a lack of flexibility and you’re locked into the design capabilities of that tool. This lack ...

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