ProtoShare
The Professional Prototyping Solution

Grown Right Here in Your Backyard

ProtoShare is a web-based, collaborative wireframing tool and prototyping application that lets your team members and other stakeholders visualize requirements before the project is constructed. We're Site9, the creators of ProtoShare, and we're proud to call Portland our home.

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Special Offer:

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Who is Site9?

Site9 was founded as an interactive agency by Andrew Mottaz in 1999. During the development of several successful e-commerce sites, we identified inefficiencies in many parts of the design and deployment process. These inefficiencies caused us to start writing our own software. We transitioned to a full-time software company in 2006 and ProtoShare was launched in 2008. We continue to evolve ProtoShare to improve the development process for our customers.

Site9 is located in downtown Portland at:
610 SW Alder
Suite 515
Portland, OR 97205

Site9 in downtown Portland

Why wireframe and prototype?

Wireframing and prototyping are industry-accepted best practices in doing design and development work. Test ideas and weed out mistakes early to avoid costly development rework. You wouldn't build a house without a blueprint, and you shouldn't do your web project without a prototype.

Discussing your wireframes and prototypes as you build them helps you make better decisions. Ulitmately that's what it's all about. ProtoShare supports this with a rich collaboration engine.

Wireframe

Powerful editor

ProtoShare has a rich wireframe editor, supporting both lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes. Prototyping is about getting your ideas across so they can be discussed. Sometimes you need a few simple boxes. Other times you need a fully interactive prototype. With ProtoShare there's no need to switch between simple sketchy apps and rich state-based protoyping software. ProtoShare does it all.

Not only is ProtoShare full featured, it's easy to use. Drag and drop components onto the canvas to build simple wireframes. Create masters and templates to reuse your content to speed up development. Use states to simulate complex behaviors without having to resort to code.

Powerful Editor

Easy collaboration

Prototyping is all about sharing. If you had no question about what to build, you would just build it. But even simple projects can benefit from discussing ideas. Sometimes it's just discussing a screen shot of a design, or maybe commenting on changes to an existing web page. Using the ProtoShare collaboration you can pinpoint comments and quickly come to a decision, saving valuable time and avoiding confusing email threads.

Easy Collaboration

No software to install, easy subscription model

ProtoShare is completely web-based, running in your web browser. This means there is nothing to download and install. You can be up and running with ProtoShare in under a minute. And when you invite others to your ProtoShare project, they just have to click a link.

Also because ProtoShare is web-based, you can access it from anywhere. ProtoShare is a great way for geographically diverse organizations to collaborate on ideas and make decisions that move projects forward.

ProtoShare is subscription-based which means you it's easy to use just what you need. Suspend or cancel your account at any time.

No Software to Install