On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Helen Killingbeck <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Has anyone experienced the situation where professionals (not trained in > the > field of interaction design and User Experience) have taken this same tool > to heart and have created prototypes that truly violate principles of > design, but they see how quickly they can produce a prototype? > I frequently train business analysts on how to use Axure and it's not so much that they violate principles of design (no more than they do when doing UX-like work in Visio or PPT or whatever), but that they have a limited ability to envision how a system would work. > How you do you handle it? > The way I recommend my training clients handle it is to make sure *all* their designing personnel (whether or not they are actually designers) are proficient in the basics of Axure. There are usually one or two particularly savvy or interested people who want to do more, and I encourage clients to let them do that and then act as internal SMEs on the tool. These people, while still not designers, typically have more of an ability to imagine how users would interact with a system and how it would respond back to them.They can also be given the responsibility for prototyping any particularly dynamic interactions that may be required. F. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred Beecher Sr. User Experience Consultant Evantage Consulting O: 612.230.3838 // M: 612.810.6745 IM: [email protected] (google/msn) // fredevc (aim/yahoo) T: http://twitter.com/fred_beecher -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred Beecher Sr. User Experience Consultant Evantage Consulting O: 612.230.3838 // M: 612.810.6745 IM: [email protected] (google/msn) // fredevc (aim/yahoo) T: http://twitter.com/fred_beecher ________________________________________________________________ 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
