We’re making some nice progress on our MVP. Without getting into details, it’s marriage of knowledge base and publishing system. To my knowledge, there’s nothing quite like it in production today.
On the business side of things, this is great!
For development – especially UI / UX – it presents a bunch of challenges since there’s not much to mimick.
I installed Balsamiq shortly after starting the work and the wireframing have been helpful, but they can only get us so far. Earlier this year, we moved to Proto.io for rapid prototyping and it’s been awesome. It’s sort of a mix between Balsamiq and more advanced tools but it is still user friendly.
We can easily pull together a prototype and see if it works rather than committing a lot of hours to developing and then pulling it apart. Frankly, I’m unsure how we ever got this far without it.