Beta bullets: prototyping with PowerPoint the Microsoft way 28 March, 2006
Jensen Harris shares some great advice on prototyping with PowerPoint at his Office User Interface blog.
I’ve used PowerPoint in the past to spruce up wireframes with simple clicking and branching by exporting Illustrator files to gifs, importing them into PowerPoint and then overlaying buttons to jump to different slides showing different screens or states. I’ve also seen it used on other teams with much more finished visuals to good effect too. It’s a quick and effective method of getting screen-based interactivity that you can show to test participants, key stakeholders and other team members to evaluate and communicate your designs (and prototyping the new version of Office with the old version is so meta it hurts!).