On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Peter Morville wrote: > > Jeffery Callender and I collaborated on this article... >> http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php >> >> ...and on a collection of icons and images... >> >> http://flickr.com/photos/morville/sets/72157612907604234/ >> ...and we'd love feedback and suggestions. Thanks! >> > > > What happened to good ol' paper and pencil and just simple sketching? > Depends on what you mean by deliverable. I would see pen, paper & sketching as tools, not deliverables. Of course, you can still show sketches to people, but just to ask questions and promote discussion, not as a final result. > > Also, what happened accurate screenshots and pixel-perfect mockups, the > software and interface design equivalent of blueprints for building a house? > These are very much different than a concept sketch. > Now that's a deliverable! > > My biggest concern with the article is that it presents each deliverable > evenly with no weight. In reality, some of those deliverables are for > purposes of process and can sometimes become busywork if not throttled > properly, and others are more meat and potatoes deliverables that quite > frankly, no project can ever get sign off without them. > > Which leads me to say that the absence of pixel-perfect mockups that are in > essence, a visual specification of what the final end product will actually > look like is a massive hole in the article that should be filled. > > -- > 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 > Sebi -- Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
