Prototyping

One quarter of the way through this book, we threw out our requirements docs and started using photos of our whiteboard sketches to communicate instead. Thanks to Todd for consolidating and analyzing the wisdom and case studies from a variety of practitioners to identify what prototyping techniques will work, now.

Shaun Abrahamson, Innovator and Investor, Colaboratorie Mutopo

Todd’s text offers a comprehensive view of prototyping– from the role of prototypes in socializing decision making and achieving organizational buy-in, to the actual pragmatics of creating interactive artifacts. This is a solid book for those “in the trenches”–the designers doing the actual work that ends up in the actual products we use every day.

Jon Kolko. Editor-in-Chief, interactions and Associate Creative Director, Frog

If you design applications and are stuck in the land of task flows and wireframes, you really need to pick up a copy of Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide. Todd offers practical, hands-on advice to jump start your prototyping and make your designs truly interactive before they are built.

Dan Saffer, Principal, Kicker Studios and author of Designing for Interaction and Designing Gestural Interfaces

If prototyping isn’t already part of your design process, this book will not only persuade you that it should be, but will show you how to make it happen. Todd’s straightforward explanations and useful examples will help even experienced designers decide what kind of prototyping to do, when to do it, and what tools will be most effective. When someone asks me about prototyping, I’ll be pointing them to this book from now on.

Kim Goodwin, VP Design, Cooper and author, Designing for the Digital Age

One quarter of the way through this book, we threw out our requirements docs and started using photos of our whiteboard sketches to communicate instead. Thanks to Todd for consolidating and analyzing the wisdom and case studies from a variety of practitioners to identify what prototyping techniques will work, now.

Shaun Abrahamson, Innovator and Investor, Colaboratorie Mutopo

Todd’s text offers a comprehensive view of prototyping– from the role of prototypes in socializing decision making and achieving organizational buy-in, to the actual pragmatics of creating interactive artifacts. This is a solid book for those “in the trenches”–the designers doing the actual work that ends up in the actual products we use every day.

Jon Kolko. Editor-in-Chief, interactions and Associate Creative Director, Frog

If you design applications and are stuck in the land of task flows and wireframes, you really need to pick up a copy of Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide. Todd offers practical, hands-on advice to jump start your prototyping and make your designs truly interactive before they are built.

Dan Saffer, Principal, Kicker Studios and author of Designing for Interaction and Designing Gestural Interfaces