What's Your Favorite Wireframing Tool?

[Yamcha]

Hi Guys,

Just curious as to what you designers use for wire framing? I'm trying to find the perfect application for wire framing, low & high fidelity, I honestly hate having to use a pencil & paper ..

Any applications that you guys can recommend?

Appreciate your time :]

Thanks!

 

[ChicoWeb]

I really like lucid chart, https://www.lucidchart.com/

 

[JCL]

I find either pencil and paper for quick wire framing because I can go through 10-20 rough ideas before settling on the top 3. Then I would either go straight into photoshop with black boxes or waste a day or two testing random "productivity" tools around the web before resorting to photoshop due to time frames.

My favorite tool I have tried is HotGloo (http://www.hotgloo.com), but its time consuming at first (I suppose it gets faster once you master it).

 

[jsm4182]

I use Omnigraffle. Its great for wireframes, site maps, and flow charts. Theres also lots of stencils you can download for different UI elements.

 

[BillyBobBongo]

I've been using Balsamiq for about a year now. It's cheap and incredibly easy to use.

 

[maxrosecollins]

Balsamiq

 

[mwilloam]

I really like using Keynote http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/. Very fast to work with.

 

[newagemac]

I use both Axure and Adobe Fireworks. If I want to brainstorm and demonstrate the information architecture, functionality, interactivity, and jquery effects, I use Axure. If I want to dive deeper into the visual design and for higher fidelity, I use Fireworks.

Sometimes I use Axure exclusively. Sometimes I start in Axure and use graphics created in Fireworks to take the designs in Axure to higher fidelity, and sometimes (rarely) I start in Fireworks and skip Axure depending on the budget of the client.

These two tools are on the expensive side but it doesn't really get any better than this.

 

[turbobass]

+1 Omnigraffle ... Lucid was cool but lacking a lot of the features that Omni had, opted not to continue with it even though the browser-ness / cloud-ness of it was pretty cool (but ultimately useless).