Compare Features

The chart below compares design tool features divided into 5 key benefits.

• Design efficiently.
• Experience your design early to test ideas.
• Engage stakeholders to gather valuable feedback.
• Automate specifications avoiding tedious documentation.
• Enable design collaboration.

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Easy to use

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Masters for quick changes

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Easy to use, but requires multiple steps and repetitive changes

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Requires experience

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Multiple steps and repetitive changes

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Requires experience

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More effort

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Resistance to changes

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Axure RP: Design Effciently

Easy to use interface: drag and drop environment, familiar menus and toolbars for editing widget properties. Sitemap, widgets, masters, annotations, and interactions all in one screen.

Features such as masters and search and replace allow for quick global changes.

Prototypes and specifications can be effortlessly generated to include design changes.

Does not require design/development tool skills.

Diagraming Tools: Design Effciently

Easy to use and learn with many built-in stencils.

Requires multiple steps for performing common design tasks like adding annotations and interactions.

Frequently requires repetitive changes across diagrams to make a single edit to a common element.

Specifications must be manually updated.

Does not require design or development tool experience

Graphics Tools: Design Effciently

Flexible drawing environment.

Requires multiple steps for performing common design tasks like adding annotations and interactions.

Frequently requires repetitive changes across images to make a single edit to a common element.

Specifications must be manually updated.

Requires design tool experience. All widgets and notes must be drawn.

Development Tools: Design Effciently

Able to develop any functionality that will be in the final application with the necessary effort.

After the initial investment in the code, the designer and developer often resist design changes.

Specifications must be manually updated.

Requires programming experience and familiarity with development tools.

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Instantly generate functional prototypes

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Basic interactivity

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Basic interactivity

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Ability for fully functioning app

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Axure RP: Experience Your Design

Instantly generate interactive HTML prototypes from wireframes without coding.

Prototypes have functional widgets including dynamic elements for experiencing RIA and AJAX functionality.

Diagraming Tools: Experience Your Design

Basic interactivity for linking diagrams.

Graphics Tools: Experience Your Design

Sometimes have basic interactivity for linking images.

Development Tools: Experience Your Design

Ability to experience fully functioning applications.

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Interactive prototypes with annotations

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Frequently printed

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Frequently printed

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Fully functioning

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No annotations and notes

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Axure RP: Present and Engage

Instantly generate interactive HTML prototypes viewable in most browsers without installing a player.

Prototypes contain annotations and page notes for clarifying functionality.

Diagraming Tools: Present and Engage

Frequently printed and shared as a hardcopy with additional documentation.

Files can be exported to HTML format with basic linking.

Graphics Tools: Present and Engage

Frequently printed and shared as a hardcopy with additional documentation.

Files can sometimes be exported to HTML format with basic linking.

Development Tools: Present and Engage

Can be a fully functioning application.

No built-in features for collecting and presenting annotations and notes to clarify functionality.

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Instantly generate specifications

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Customizable

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Manual specs

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Manual specs

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Manual specs

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Axure RP: Automate Specifications

Instantly generate specifications in Microsoft Word format

Specifications include configurable sitemap, screenshots, annotations, interactions, and page notes. Choose between single and two column layouts.

Documents can be styled to fit corporate standards.

Diagraming Tools: Automate Specifications

Specifications are frequently created manually in Microsoft Word. The process involves repetitive copy and paste.

Graphics Tools: Automate Specifications

Specifications are frequently created manually in Microsoft Word. The process involves repetitive copy and paste.

Development Tools: Automate Specifications

Specifications are sometimes manually created in Microsoft Word. The process sometimes involves screen capture, and repetitive copy and paste.

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Check in/check out system

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Version control

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Manual file management

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Separate version control

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Manual file management

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Separate version control

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Manual file management

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Separate version control

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Axure RP: Enable Design Collaboration

Collaborate using a simple check in/check out system. Integrated version control maintains the project history.

No server installation required.

Pages and masters can be imported from one file to another.

Diagraming Tools: Enable Design Collaboration

Manual file management or management through a separate version control system. Requires management of multiple files.

Graphics Tools: Enable Design Collaboration

Manual file management or management through a separate version control system. Requires management of multiple files.

Development Tools: Enable Design Collaboration

Manual file management or management through a separate version control system. Requires management of multiple files.

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