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Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping - Smashing Magazine - 3 views

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prototyping

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  • What Needs to Be Prototyped? Good candidates for prototyping include complex interactions, new functionality and changes in workflow, technology or design. For example, prototyping search results is useful when you want to depart significantly from the standard search experience; say, to introduce faceted search or the ability to preview a document without leaving the search results.
  • How Much Should Be Prototyped? A good rule of thumb is to focus on the 20% of the functionality that will be used 80% of the time; i.e. key functionality that will be used most often. Remember, the point of rapid prototyping is to showcase how something will work or, in later stages, what the design will look like, without prototyping the entire product.
  • In choosing the prototype fidelity, there is no one correct approach. Most designs of new products are best started with sketches, then moving to either medium- or high-fidelity prototypes, depending on the complexity of the system and the requirements of the dimensions of fidelity.
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  • Avoid “prototype creep” by setting expectations for the process, including ones affecting the purpose, fidelity, scope and duration. Remind everyone, including yourself, that rapid prototyping is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
  • Don’t begin prototype review sessions without clear guidelines for feedback. Be very specific about the type of feedback you are looking for. (Are the steps logically arranged? Is the navigation clear and intuitive?) If not, be prepared for, “I don’t like the blue in the header,” or “Can’t we use this font instead?” or “Can you make this bigger, bolder, in red and flashing?” Don’t be a perfectionist. In most cases, rapid prototyping does not have to be 100% perfect, just good enough to give everyone a common understanding.
Andrea Nelson

Wireframes are dead, long live rapid prototyping - UX for the masses - 2 views

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  • On screen annotation tools such Protonotes and WebNotes allow you to easily add comments to your prototype so there isn’t even a need to add footnotes to your screen grabs.
Andrea Nelson

Cooper Journal: Lean UX, Product Stewardship, and Integrated Teams - 0 views

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LeanUX

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  • Product stewardship relieves pressure on the product owner bottleneck. A UX strategist assumes the role of Product Steward, pairing with a Product Manager to share the mantle of product ownership. The product manager has a bias towards representing the business, the product steward towards satisfying the user, with a recognition that an interplay of these forces drives prioritization of the team's activities.
  • Most of all, trust In the power of user-centered design to inspire, delight, and guide your teams forward.
Andrea Nelson

Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business - Smashing UX Design - 1 views

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LeanUX

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  • UX designers have traditionally worn many hats. You now have another to add to the hall tree: keeper of the vision. In this new role, your responsibility is to keep an eye on the big picture. Lean UX forces you to think of the experience in prioritized chunks. Ultimately, those chunks all have to roll up into one cohesive product. That cohesive product is your vision.
  • UX designers have traditionally worn many hats. You now have another to add to the hall tree: keeper of the vision. In this new role, your responsibility is to keep an eye on the big picture. Lean UX forces you to think of the experience in prioritized chunks. Ultimately, those chunks all have to roll up into one cohesive product. That cohesive product is your vision.
  • UX designers have traditionally worn many hats. You now have another to add to the hall tree: keeper of the vision. In this new role, your responsibility is to keep an eye on the big picture. Lean UX forces you to think of the experience in prioritized chunks.
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  • UX designers have traditionally worn many hats. You now have another to add to the hall tree: keeper of the vision. In this new role, your responsibility is to keep an eye on the big picture. Lean UX forces you to think of the experience in prioritized chunks.
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  • UX designers have traditionally worn many hats. You now have another to add to the hall tree: keeper of the vision. In this new role, your responsibility is to keep an eye on the big picture. Lean UX forces you to think of the experience in prioritized chunks.
  • UX designers have traditionally worn many hats. You now have another to add to the hall tree: keeper of the vision. In this new role, your responsibility is to keep an eye on the big picture. Lean UX forces you to think of the experience in prioritized chunks.
  • Successful lean prototypes have been created with code, with design software such as Adobe Fireworks and even with PowerPoint.
  • Successful lean prototypes have been created with code, with design software such as Adobe Fireworks and even with PowerPoint.
Andrea Nelson

The Two Core Competencies - 4 views

www.svpg.com/the-two-core-competencies

product development prototyping qualitative quantitative

shared by Andrea Nelson on 05 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • When trying to decide which technique is most appropriate for the situation, one general rule of thumb is that we can best prove something works with live-data prototypes and split testing, but we can best understand why something doesn’t work, and most importantly, what it would take to make it work, with face-to-face user testing.
Andrea Nelson

How the BBC feels about rapid prototyping « Handcrafted - 6 views

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  • Andrea Nelson on 05 Nov 11
     
    The BBC has a pretty innovative design practice. Bad pictures, good read.
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