Last month, I ran a survey investigating a number of things related to prototyping. One of these was a question of the type of prototypes people are often creating.

In order of most common to least common, here they are:

• Paper — 81%


• Hand coded html — 58%


• Auto generated (e.g. Axure, iRise, Visio, Fireworks or similar) — 39%


• Clickable Screenshots (using HTML) — 34%


• Interactive Flash, Flex, AIR, Blend, or similar — 27%


• Keynote or PowerPoint — 24%


• Clickable PDFs — 21%


• Production Environment (e.g. Rails, PHP, .Net, Java, Xcode, C) — 9%


• 3D Models (e.g. Cardboard, Foam Core, Circuit-boards) — 1.2%

Participants were allowed to select any and all methods they used. Close to 200 participants responded, representing a mix of researchers, designers, developers, product managers, and business analysts.

I'll be posting more findings in the future.