The importance of planning before acting
Many designers at some time or another have been tempted to start designing a new project without any prior planning. Whether novice sin, lazy or just do not believe that planning should be part of our creative process.
Planning should always be part of our creative process, not something "optional".
With preplanning I'm not suggesting many hours of careful planning and organization of all we do, it has to be practical and at no time should be the remedy worse than the disease, remember that we are interested in planning to save time and gain in quality.
In this pre-planning process is important that we answer such basic questions as:
- 1. What kind of website I create?
- 2. What kind of public visit the web?
- 3. What is the purpose / final goal of the web?
- 4. Comply design goals in mind? Is it usable and intuitive?
Answering these questions (sure añadiríais / quitaríais any) nosenfrentamos to problems despite being too obvious we save more than undolor head ... how many times have we discarded visually appealing designs which do not meet the basic objectives?
Basic design with well-defined objectives save us more of a "clean slate".
While projects "for fun" (for fun) can be understood not plan anything, but simply experience it and trasteemos on the fly ... I refuse to think that you may not need / devote average 30 or 60 minutes planning what we want to achieve and how.
Planning Tools for web designs
While not all existing market (anything not, but there's a lot), I wanted to highlight those that I found most interesting and I used sometime in test mode or in real projects.
As always, if you know any interesting tool that is not on this list, you know what are the comments 
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.Balsamiq Mockups
Balsamiq Mockups is a multiplatform tool (Linux, Windows, Mac) that allows us to drag and drop all kinds of Web Parts, phones and other common controls to streamline the brainstorming and initial sketches of any type of project.
It is no coincidence that appears first in the list, is currently the one I use for most projects Cokidoo.
Among other things we are allowed to create multipage documents (something like Excel) and edit the elements themselves can be added quickly and pseudo-content documents: items in a menu navigation, records in a table… etc.
HotGloo
HotGloo Wireframing tool with a very neat appearance and interface that is not only meant for designers, but also for programmers. As a good web service, no need to worry or downloads or constant updates, just create your account and begin to enjoy the service.
HotGloo favors the relationship between customers and members of the same team can edit and comment about any part of our work through a real-time collaboration with integrated chat. At times some of their characteristics remember aBasecamp (relatively speaking).
Gliffy
Gliffy It is a free application for creating diagrams, allowing us to create an easy and convenient way all sorts of drawings and diagrams with a very professional finish.
Logically between home plans, graphs, diagrams base, technical drawings and other designs can outline our web designs.
iPlotz
iPlotz creates clickable so quickly and all kinds of web prototypes, but also supports elements for planning all kinds of software applications. Esmultiplataforma can be run on Linux, Windows, Mac or embedded web browser using flash.
Incorporates a project manager so that we can have multiple projects under one account, as well as incorporating a system of discussion with which to evaluate the various creations in order to improve the final work.
Pencil Project
Pencil Project It is a plugin for Firefox that allows us to prototype user interfaces directly in your browser.
Includes typical drawing tools you would expect from this type of program, besides being multiplatform and accept ourselves predefined templates. As curiosity is supported by the Mozilla Foundation.
Paper & Pencil
Usually capture the first sketches or doodles on paper quickly and conveniently usually a good practice to then "pass clean" and complete with one of these programs. Then we can show them to customers or other work equipment.
