Vince Frantz — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:12:43 GMT

I started taking my PDFs from Ai into Acrobat to add hyperlinked navigation sometime around 2002. The first reason was to link from Site Maps to related Wireframe pages and back again. This was pretty handy for connecting Site Map or Workflow locations with the relative Wireframes.

Then later that year I got into InDesign and started doing full blown PDF prototypes since I would no longer need to take a pass through Acrobat. So now I generally use only InDesign for all wireframes and some site mapping (mostly OmniGraffle for that now). I don’t always need to make them interactive. But I agree that for a person in an IA/ID role that PDF prototypes are the best of all worlds: Superb print output, Superb on-screen output and great interactivity prototyping – no coding knowledge needed whatsoever.

And with the new CS3 allowing InDesign files to be placed inside other indd files it will be “hello wireframelib!” (haven’t upgraded yet)

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Vince Frantz