Adam Kalsey

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Swipr

20 Apr 2006

This is huge. Swipr is a toolkit to convert wireframes and sitemaps created in Visio into interactive HTML demos.

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve mocked something up in Visio and tried to walk stakeholders through it screen by screen. Invariably, people don’t get it and you have problems later on.

Check out the demo to really wrap your head around how this works and how important it is.

Despite not having a single bit of MS software on my Mac, now I want Visio for OSX. Or Swipr for Omnigraffle. Or both.

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