We have been using the he** out of Jumpchart for client projects. It’s been amazing looking back on past practices vs. how we do things now.

This week we had two ecommerce projects land in our lap. Both of them had unique peculiarities that were specific to an industry, and of course both of them were under-funded. In short, we had to get creative, and precise about deliverables, or we had to turn them down.

Luckily Jumpchart is mature enough to use in client work. We were able to use the quick “lorem ipsum” shortcuts to mock in content. We used the shorthand form elements to show off the way we expected the checkout system to work. We allowed ourselves to redefine the project by dragging and dropping pages between sections…

While talking on the phone, one of our potential clients changed the way the application needed to behave. It wasn’t time to panic, -Jumpchart assigned no penalty for making changes. We were able to quickly reflect the changes that needed to take place without slowing our creativity.

We’ll admit, -old habits die hard. We started the process on paper. In this case, however, the paper brain-storming didn’t last past one page. It was simply quicker to get a functional clickable prototype than it was to waste time with non-interactive paper mockups.

Better yet, the first round draft was directly presentable, and understandable by the client…