Intuitect Professional

"As a productivity-enhancing tool Intuitect Professional should be part of every user experience designer's arsenal."
                          --Fred Leise, Chief Operating Officer

A Visio 2003 or 2007 add-on, Intuitect Professional is an easy-to-use design, modeling and documentation software tool for the UX design process. It enables the rapid creation of high quality specifications and prototypes for website and web-based application projects.

With intuitive features for building and managing sitemaps, designing wireframes and process flows, and generating specifications and prototypes, Intuitect Professional is designed to work the way you do.

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Features:

Sitemaps
Wireframes
Flowmaps (Process Flows)
Prototypes
Specifications
Project Templates
Patterns
Notes
Properties
Inter-Project Linking

Compare features with Intuitect Basic.

Technical Requirements

Sitemaps

• Automatic drag-and-drop hierarchy creation
• Automatic hierarchical page numbering
• Allowable non-hierarchical pages
• Import previously created content audits for sitemap creation
• Multiple continuation pages for documenting large websites
• Easily re-arrange sitemaps using toolbar buttons
• Insert and remove continuation points
• Easy sitemap navigation using sitemap elements tree
• Automatically numbered sitemap notes
• Add references to external project
• Faster sitemap creation and modification
• No need to play with individual boxes and connectors

View sitemap demo

Sample Sitemap #1
Sample Sitemap #2
Sample Sitemap #3

Wireframes

• Standards-compliant UI elements
• Configurable element look and feel
• Modify wireframe height, width, background color, alignment
• Simple drag-and-drop element placement
• Copy and re-use styled elements
• Customize global and local navigation menu placement, orientation and design
• Sitemap changes cascade to wireframe navigation menus
• Import images and rich media (Flash) files
• Create intra-project links or links to external URLs
• Standard form elements
• Automatically numbered wireframe notes
• Add references to external project
• Faster wireframe creation
• Cascading menu changes means wireframes are always up to date

View wireframe demo

View menu designer demo

Sample Wireframe #1
Sample Wireframe #2
Sample Wireframe #3

Flowmaps (Process Flows)

• Simple drag-and-drop element placement
• Include standard process elements
• Integrate sitemap pages in flows
• Multiple flowmap pages for documenting large processes
• Automatically numbered flowmap notes
• Add references to external projects
• Faster flowmap/process flow creation
• Improved process flow documentation

Sample Process Flow #1
Sample Process Flow #2

Prototypes

• Create prototypes with one click
• XHTML-compliant code
• Fully functional prototype for user testing or sharing with client
• Easily updated to match design changes
• Prototype sitemap for easy prototype navigation
• Prototype always up to date
• No waiting for prototype development
• Prototype always matches sitemap/wireframes

Specifications

• Single-source, complete project documentation
• Includes complete project-level, page-level and element-level properties
• Provides details of both default and custom properties
• Automatically linked document pages
• References images for all sitemap, flowmap and wireframe pages
• Updates with the press of a single button
• Easily track requirements compliance
• Specifications always up to date

Project Templates

• Save any project, including all project elements as template
• Create new project based on existing template
• Share template files
• Save design time
• Improve consistency

Patterns

• Save multiple wireframe elements for re-use
• Save entire wireframes for re-use
• Easily assign wireframe patterns to multiple sitemap pages with one click
• Save flowmap pattern elements for re-use
• Export/import patterns for sharing with team members
• Improved design consistency
• Faster design time
• Easily follow client brand guidelines

Notes

• Annotate wireframe, sitemap or process flow diagrams
• Clearly articulate and communicate intended functionality
• Provide project stakeholders with easy to understand visual documentation

Properties

• Project-level, page-level and element-level properties
• Rich default properties set, fully extensible
• Modifiable property values
• Notes field for all properties
• Select properties for inclusion in specifications document

View properties demo

Inter-Project Linking

• Create links between multiple projects
• Link to common processes from multiple projects
• Document large websites with multiple, linked projects

Technical Requirements

• Windows 2000 with SP3 or higher, Windows XP with SP2 or higher
• Intuitect Professional does not support Vista at this time
• English-language operating system
• Visio 2003 Professional or Standard, or Visio 2007 Professional or Standard
• 512MB of RAM minimum, 1GB recommended
• .NET Framework 2.0+
• 20MB of free disk space

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