Unless you are like these guys, before you start working on a brand new website or on a redesign, you must put all your ideas on paper starting from how will the main menu look like and all the way to page interactions or usage scenarios.

As the technology evolves, these days you have more than a simple piece of paper and a pen. You have sketchbooks, mockups, paper browsers and so on. If you are not familiar with this tools then this article it’s a great knowledge base for you.