Comments on Keeping Pace with Change

Sam S — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:36:05 GMT

G, the stpBA HTML output issue is specifically related to IE7, and the fix has been sceduled in the next release – see the post on our forums for more details: http://forums.stpsoft.co.uk/index.php?topic=19.0

Fred Leise — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:11:53 GMT

Intuitect is a commercially viable tool that was used even during its beta trials last fall to design a website with over 1,000 pages and 50 different wireframes.

From the beginning, our product has been based on strong connections with the IA and UX community, and we have been working for a year and a half to develop the features that are most helpful to those users. We continue to develop our tool based on feedback from current and potential customers.

We invite everyone to download our 30-day free trail and see for themselves whether such capabilities as drag-and-drop sitemaps, cascading wireframe updates and one-click prototyping meet your needs.

We always work with our customers to make sure that our tool meets their needs.

G Manfredi — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:11:39 GMT

Hi Samantha,
Thank you for the review of Intuitect. I have installed their trial version and I like their approach a lot. Unfortunately, after two days of struggling with it, I have decided to move on and am considering Axure. The reason is that Intuitect is fraught with bugs, things break making me start from scratch, patterns get off-center and cannot be fixed, flowmaps break easily thus having connectors hanging out that cannot be deleted, etc. In the end, I couldn’t really finish a decent flow. They don’t even integrate tables yet. It’s a very good approach, yet the product is not mature and stable YET for real production work. I wish them luck and hope they get it right.

I’ve also reviewed iRise (fabulous yet even their new $10K/year program is still a bit expensive and learning curve is steep), simunicator (very very interesting approach, yet too much programming for what I need), Axure (easiest and most effective for my needs so far), stpBA (not bad, but ugly output), etc. Axure may win out for now.

Todd Kalhar — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:11:07 GMT

Samantha, thanks for bringing these tools together in one review and comparing/contrasting them against Intuitect. I look forward to seeing the free trial version of the product in just a few days. My company has struggled with documentation and prototyping for several years, often failing to produce adequate documentation out of sheer frustration. These products bring some hope to our process … just wish I had come across them sooner.

Michael Beavers — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:39:38 GMT

This is a nice in-depth review of Intuitect. I recommend that others read this past B&A article for more comparisons:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/visio_replaceme. After reading it, I’m pretty sure Scott is an iRise fan. I’m still hoping Omnigraffle will come out with a PC version—even though I’m not an IA.