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Prototypically Speaking
http://softwareprototyping.net
Thoughts on software requirements prototyping techniques, effective design and the software development process.
- Added on: Oct 29th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: John Clark
- Listed in: Innovation Programming
- Tags: Software design techniques agile requirements prototyping
Recent Posts
Involve important people (part 2)
A few weeks ago, I wrote the first in a series of short articles about who needs to be involved in the software design process if it’s to have an increased chance of succeeding. We covered involving users then, but they are only part of the o...
Design Feedback, part 1
In Requirements Prototyping, when a designer creates an initial prototype design for a customer, it becomes the starting point for a cycle of evaluations and feedback sessions. These sessions can (and should) involve both the users who will work wi...
Individual versus Conforming design
Have you ever seen a website whose interface is ‘way out there’? Of course you have – there are many. Sites where, for better or worse, the designer has chosen to make her own path rather than follow a tried and tested design. Individual de...
Pushing the envelope
Sometimes a design will arrive for an everyday item that’s so blindingly obvious yet revolutionary you have to wonder why nobody did it before. Such a design is the folding plug, designed by Min-kyu Choi. Taking inspiration from the Apple Macbook...
Ergonomics…
Just wanted to put a link to a great article on the science of ergonomics. It’s something which applies as much to effective software design as it does to milk cartons or portable music players. That page design that requires the user to cons...
Adding magic
Designing interactive software systems is a fantastic opportunity not only meet the objectives of your customer, but improve the day-to-day experience of the end users. This responsibility doesn’t come lightly; get it wrong and you run can just ...
