Laura Veprek — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:30:15 GMT

Kyle,
I think this is a great article. It shows the potential power of using PDF for prototypes. Thank you for posting it!

As the others have said, boils down to personal preference and organizational preference whether and how these PDFs are used. For me, as a designer/developer, I am the one who creates the mockups and then gets to code it. I would much rather create a Photoshop mockup, then send it out as a PDF for people to comment on before I spend time coding. It’s much, much easier to work out major changes, like layout, in Photoshop, especially if you have more than one design to choose from, than to code, and re-code, and re-code…That would likely just produce messy code. Not to mention that if you use a coded mockup, you’re still faced with many unusable parts. So why not make a prettier picture? As a last point, if you’re doing the prototype for a proposal, and not necessarily a guaranteed project, I would say you get more bang for your buck with a PDF than with a live, coded site.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Laura Veprek