A Practitioner’s Guide to Prototyping
Blog Archive
- June 02, 2008: Prototyping Survey and Chance for a Free Copy of the Book
- I'm looking for some input on different techniques and tools people are using, as well as issues they've run into with prototyping. Here's your opportunity to provide some input and have a chance at a free copy of the prototyping...
- May 28, 2008: Chapter 4—Prototyping Guiding Principles
- Today marked another milestone in my book. I delivered a new chapter titled "The Eight Guiding Principles. This chapter wasn't originally planned to be 8 guiding principles, but after my recent presentation for Refresh DC it was obvious this was...
- May 28, 2008: 7 Principles of Prototyping at Refresh DC
- A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the Refresh DC group. I was really excited about this talk for a couple of reasons. First, Jackson, one of the guys on my Wif panel runs the group and asked...
- May 14, 2008: Prototyping Talk in DC Thursday May 15th
- I'll be doing a talk tomorrow evening in Arlington, VA for the Refresh DC group on prototyping. Find our more about it and RSVP via the Upcoming event. So far there are 100+ people attending....
- May 06, 2008: Agile 2008 Prototyping Tutorial
- Just found out I'll be teaching a half-day tutorial on paper prototyping at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. Dates are August 4th-8th, 2008....
- April 03, 2008: Speaking at Webdesign International on Prototyping
- I'll be speaking on a panel about agile and prototyping at the Webdesign International Festival on Friday, April 18th. From the site: "The new professional practices of design: professional communities and methodological tools At the time of the social Web...
- April 03, 2008: Speaking at IA Summit on Prototyping
- I'm on a panel discussing practical prototyping at the IA Summit Sunday, April 13th. I'm fortunate to share the panel with some talented individuals including Chris Conley, Anders Ramsey, and Jed Wood. From the Summit site: "Prototypes are a great...
- January 30, 2008: Webdesign International Festival
- I'm headed to Limoges, France April 17-19 to discuss prototyping and agile at the Webdesign International Festival (WiF). Looks like a really interesting and fun conference. FYI, the site has audio when you launch it. So, if you're at work,...
- January 27, 2008: Paper Prototyping Workshop
- I'm teaching a workshop on paper prototyping at the IxDA conference in Savannah, GA Friday, Feb 8th. In doing some preparation, I came across this example on YouTube....
- December 04, 2007: Adobe Thermo Looks Promosing
- Adobe has a demo video of a new prototyping environment they've been working on called Thermo and it looks pretty promising....
- November 08, 2007: Definition of a prototype
- There's a pretty good discussion on the IxDA list regarding prototypes, what constitutes a prototype, what the goals are, etc. When I asked what tools people are using for prototyping, I received a long list of responses. One of the...
- October 11, 2007: The 5 Types of Prototypes
- Prototypes can serve a number of purposes. Here's the five primary roles a prototype can take on. Keep in mind that a prototype can take one more than one of these roles at a time. As a common communication platform–using...
- September 10, 2007: Protoscript for Prototyping
- Bill Scott from Yahoo! recently released Protoscript. There are an endless supply of JavaScript libraries and toolkits out there, but Bill didn't create Protoscript with the intent of creating another toolkit. Instead, he created it with the intent of prototyping....
- August 29, 2007: Concept Cars as a Prototype
- One of the advantages of prototyping is the ability to work through a design concept. A team at Ford discuss the design thinking behind their Verve concept car. Pay attention around 1:25 left. You'll see a guy prototyping rims for...
- August 19, 2007: Paper Prototyping Workshop
- I'll be teaching a workshop on paper prototyping at the inaugural Interactions08 IxDA conference in Savannah, GA Feb 8-10th. This highly detailed, practical, and hands on workshop will provide a framework for creating and testing paper prototypes. When you leave...
- July 10, 2007: Working Through a Design
- Two common reasons for prototyping are to get internal buy-in and to gauge technical feasibility. But one of the best reason to prototype is to work through a design. This little insight came through an interview I did earlier this...
- June 01, 2007: Prototyping Tools of Choice
- Prototypes come in all different shapes and sizes and have a variety of purposes. And there are a number of tools flashing their prototyping capabilties like iRise, Axure, Fireworks, and even Flex. I've often been asked what's my tool of...
- June 01, 2007: The Many Hats of a Prototype
- I've been doing a great deal of protoyping and prototype testing lately - surprise. Last fall, I got to test an extremely high-fidelity rich AJAX app for IntraLinks. This prototype was highly interactive and used to test a number of...
- May 31, 2007: Questions About Protoyping
- I've had a number of discussions with people since the announcement of the book. And a few things are very clear: People are really excited about the book People have a lot of questions about prototyping Many of the questions...
- April 23, 2007: Where Does Prototyping Fit into Your Process
- I've been asked a number of times where prototyping fits into the design/development process. A number of years ago I would have said after you do some design. At this year's IA Summit, Gene Smith was discussing the process they...
- March 13, 2007: Brief hello, and a request for case studies
- Hi everyone, I'm excited to get going on this book! I'll post a "formal" hello and introduction soon, but while I've got your attention, let me ask: have you used prototypes in some life-changing way? If so, would you (and...
