On Feb 13, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Christopher Fahey wrote: >> > I hope this doesn't re-open the old 'debate' with Andrei Herasimchuk > over what constitutes a "prototype".
Only if you want it to by invoking my name when I was actually going to let it go... 8^) I can tell you this: The talk given by Jonathan Arnowitz and crew at the BayCHI/IxDA talk at Google last month using the example of using Microsoft Excel to "draw" screens is not a prototype. Their talking points about prototyping were fine, but the means they used to show "prototyping" was way off base imho. If anyone in the Bay Area wants me to give a talk on what I mean by prototyping -- going into full detail the various fidelity levels, ease of construction, use a design tool, inexpensiveness, iteration, etc. -- I'd be more than happy to do so. Beyond that, I'm also waiting to hear Alan's explanation of the same excerpt that Dave posted. I read the transcript yesterday and I was kind of shocked to read that last bit. My only guess is that Alan is referring to the traditional engineering use or definition of a prototype, where code is written by engineers and used to exercise functional aspects of a product before full engineering commences on the feature. If Alan is thinking of or referring to that sort of thing, then I would absolutely agree with him. But there are levels of very high fidelity prototypes in the software/ web world that are design prototypes; fast to build, easy to iterate on, extraordinarily useful in making detailed, final design decisions. These are more akin to the kind of prototyping Henry Dreyfuss describes in "Designing for People." -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ 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
