Effective Prototyping for Software Makers
內容描述
Description
Much as we hate to admit it, most prototyping practice lacks a
sophisticated understanding of the broad concepts of prototyping—and its
strategic position within the development process. Often we overwhelm with a
high fidelity prototype that designs us into a corner. Or, we can underwhelm
with a prototype with too much ambiguity and flexibility to be of much use in
the software development process. This book will help software
makers—developers, designers, and architects—build effective prototypes every
time: prototypes that convey enough information about the product at the
appropriate time and thus set expectations appropriately. This
practical, informative book will help anyone—whether or not one has artistic
talent, access to special tools, or programming ability—to use good
prototyping style, methods, and tools to build prototypes and manage for
effective prototyping. Features
A prototyping process with guidelines, templates, and worksheets;
Overviews and step-by-step guides for 9 common prototyping techniques;
An introduction with step-by-step guidelines to a variety of prototyping
tools that do not require advanced artistic skills;
Templates and other resources used in the book available on the Web for
reuse;
Clearly-explained concepts and guidelines;
Full-color illustrations, and examples from a wide variety of prototyping
processes, methods, and tools. Jonathan Arnowitz is a principal user
experience designer at SAP Labs and is the co-editor-in-chief of Interactions
Magazine. Most recently Jonathan was a senior user experience designer at
Peoplesoft. He is a member of the SIGCHI executive committee, and was a
founder of DUX, the first ever joint conference of ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH,
AIGA Experience Design Group, and STC. Michael Arent is the manager of
user experience design at SAP Labs, and has previously held positions at
Peoplesoft, Inc, Adobe Systems, Inc, Sun Microsystems, and Apple Computer,
Inc. He holds several U.S. patents. Nevin Berger is design director at
Ziff Davis Media. Previously he was a senior interaction designer at Oracle
Corporation and Peoplesoft, Inc., and has held creative director positions at
ZDNet, World Savings, and OFOTO, Inc.
Table of
Contents
0: Preface: Effective Prototyping, why this book?1: Why
Prototyping2: The effective prototyping process3: Verify prototype
assumptions and requirements4: Develop Task Flows and Scenarios5:
Define prototype content and fidelity6: Determine Characteristics7:
Choose a Method8: Choose a Prototyping Tool9: Establish the design
criteria10: Create the Design11: Review the Design: the internal
review12: Validate and iterate the prototype13: Deploy the
design14: Card sorting15: Wireframe prototyping16: Storyboard
prototyping17: Paper prototyping18: Digital interactive
prototyping19: Blank model prototyping20: Video prototyping21:
Wizard of Oz prototyping22: Coded prototyping23: Prototyping with
office suite applications24: Prototyping with Visio25: Prototyping
with Acrobat26: Prototyping with Photoshop
