Agreed.  Blanket statements are always wrong in certain cases :)

In the end it depends what you're trying to prototype.. interaction?
physical controls? physical objects?  each will have different
requirements and be better suited to different mediums.


On Nov 8, 2007 9:19 PM, pauric analoguisation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew "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 completely agree, but, I'll play the devil's advocate once more and
> take that to the logical conclusion..
>
> You can only properly test the final product, which is true, but not
> entirely practical.
>
> There's a lot more to simply labeling a document a prototype, mockup ,
> spec, etc.  There's annotations, coversheets, context & facilitation
> (among many other things) that make a 'document'.
>
> So, statements... if I may be so pointed.. such as 'you cant make
> prototypes from paper' are fairly, whats the word...
>
> thanks -p


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