Effective Prototyping for Software Makers

is a practical, informative resource that will help anyone—whether or not one has artistic talent, access to special tools, or programming ability—to use good prototyping style, methods, and tools to build prototypes and manage for effective prototyping.

This book features a prototyping process with guidelines, templates, and worksheets; overviews and step-by-step guides for nine common prototyping techniques; an introduction with step-by-step guidelines to a variety of prototyping tools that do not require advanced artistic skills; templates and other resources used in the book available on the Web for reuse; clearly-explained concepts and guidelines; and full-color illustrations and examples from a wide variety of prototyping processes, methods, and tools.

This book is an ideal resource for usability professionals and interaction designers; software developers, web application designers, web designers, information architects, information and industrial designers.

• A prototyping process with guidelines, templates, and worksheets;
• Overviews and step-by-step guides for 9 common prototyping techniques;
• An introduction with step-by-step guidelines to a variety of prototyping tools that do not require advanced artistic skills;
• Templates and other resources used in the book available on the Web for reuse;
• Clearly-explained concepts and guidelines;
• Full-color illustrations, and examples from a wide variety of prototyping processes, methods, and tools.

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