Visual Paradigm 12.0 Introduces Storyboard

Dec. 31, 2014 - PRLog -- Wireframe is a sketch of user interface. It provides screen blueprints of the software system to be developed. By representing system screens with wireframes, customer can easily picture what will be developed even without any prototype or semi-product built. This facilitates the collection of early user suggestions in requirements gathering phase of software development, which in turns save cost and increase the quality of the end product.

Visual Paradigm supports the wireframing of website, desktop applications as well as mobile applications (Android and IOS). Not only do they support the sketching of wireframe but as a full-featured requirements tool, they also support associating wireframes with use case as part of the use case scenario. In version 12.0, Visual Paradigm moves one step forward by supporting storyboard, which allows to organization and presentation of wireframes based on user-created stories.

While wireframe itself represents a static screen blueprint, storyboard allows the dynamic representation of wireframes by grouping and ordering wireframes in story basis. Take online banking as an example, one can add a storyboard called “Transfer Cash” and add the wireframes to the storyboard by representing the screen flow from account login to entering the target account ID, specifying the amount to transfer and finally executing the transferal command.

Same as how use case based wireframing, storyboard also allows user to present the wireframes involved in form of a slideshow. This allows users to demonstrate screen flow to their customers easily.

Besides storyboard, Visual Paradigm 12.0 has also enhanced UeXceler, another major feature for requirements gathering by supporting the addition of design diagrams to user stories as sub-diagrams or as reference diagrams. Those recent changes seem to imply that Visual Paradigm is heading towards the direction of better requirements gathering support.

For more information on Visual Paradigm 12.0’s new features, please visit:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/whats-new/

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