Thanks for the pointer, Itamar. But, I think my original question didn't really focus on the issue. The question is more about how to prototype something that has many different dynamically generated navigation paths.
Let's assume I gave the participant the task of finding the hardcover book "Owls of North America" by John P. Author. For simplicity's sake, the only navigation entries available are the following facets: Subject, Author, and Format. The participant could start on any of these paths, and at any point filter down on any of the other facets. Now, this situation leads me to think that I need to plan for at least 9 different possible interaction paths (3^3). This could really get out of hand in a non-trivial example, of course. So, I'm interested in seeing how this situation might be approached. Thinking more broadly, I would think that testing something like tag navigation might also incur the same challenge. Cheers, -Todd On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Itamar Medeiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience has been: every time you raise the level of detail of a > prototype, testers tend to get caught up on the aesthetics and lose > focus of the interaction. But I guess it's all a matter of how you > conduct the test and how do you brief the users about the nature of > the prototype. > > Anyway, there were several discussions on prototyping (tools, > methods, etc...) on the list already. You might want to check them > out: > > http://www.ixda.org/search.php?tag=prototype > > { Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer > designing clear, understandable communication by > caring to structure, context, and presentation > of data and information > > mobile ::: 86 13671503252 > website ::: http://designative.info/ > aim ::: itamarlmedeiros > skype ::: designative > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33211 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- ----- Todd Moy todd.moy /at/ gmail /dot/ com Grand Central # : 919 926 9730 ________________________________________________________________ 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
