{"id":1714,"date":"2007-08-31T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/interactive-prototypes-withkeynote"},"modified":"2017-01-20T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:42:53","slug":"interactive-prototypes-withkeynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/interactive-prototypes-withkeynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Prototypes with Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Maureen Kelly\u2019s excellent article on <a href=\"http:\/\/boxesandarrows.com\/view\/interactive\">Interactive Prototypes with PowerPoint<\/a> on Boxes and Arrows, I was reminded of how nicely simple tools can be used to quickly show ideas like this. I\u2019ve tried this before with Flash, but it was too awkward. I\u2019ve also tried it with Adobe Acrobat, but I don\u2019t like using that program. It doesn\u2019t seem well suited for that.<\/p>\n<p>Yet both Acrobat and presentation software like PowerPoint and Keynote let you make \u201clinks\u201d in your presentation, and since you can save them out to <span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span> files, you get the same effect. It\u2019s like a paper prototype on your display! In fact, you could just scan in a bunch of pages of prototypes you\u2019ve sketched out, and make the links on there actually work, which is about the quickest way I can think of to get click-ability on a primitive prototype like that.<\/p>\n<p>Curious, I downloaded the example PowerPoint files from that article, and they opened in Keynote beautifully. I was able to use the links and everything. From there, I was even able to export a <span class=\"caps\">PDF<\/span>, which also worked perfectly, links and all.<\/p>\n<p>So I highly recommend this method for quickly showing clients how your website will work. It could save you tons of time, backtracking because your layout or flow doesn\u2019t make sense!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Maureen Kelly\u2019s excellent article on Interactive Prototypes with PowerPoint on Boxes and Arrows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/i\/IMG_3016.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}