That's all very true, and you make many great points. However, a house made of candy shouldn't be used to test structural stability under load. Just as a paper "prototype" shouldn't be used to test an interactive product.
I should caveat my opinion by saying that you could use papery to prototype *certain aspects* of an interactive product.. but if you're trying to build a complete prototype it will never be fully realized without an interactive medium. It's not really about the tools used, as much as the medium used. On Nov 8, 2007 8:58 PM, pauric analoguisation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Matthew, leading on from that then, what if I facilitate that > lost clickability in a usability test, does it become some sort of > prototype again? > > Where is the line drawn? > > Yes, this is a pointless theoretical semantic nomenclature debate, I > guess what I'm getting at is that a 'document' should be defined by > its audience not the tools used to create it. > > Its a huge 'it depends' on the context situation but in my mind its > superbly fruitless to base definitions on construction. > > Its all about the use. > > A car made of wood is still a car > http://www.tomstrongman.com/ClassicCars/JerryNickel/Index.htm > A house made of candy, is still a house > http://www.willcotton.com/paintingscans/candyhousezm.jpg > > etc etc... > > > On Nov 8, 2007 8:47 PM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To answer the question (even though it was posed to Andrei :) ... > > > > I would say no, -- Matt Nish-Lapidus email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
