[IxDA Discuss] The Five Types of Prototypes

[Cindy Alvarez]

On 10/1/07, Dmitry Nekrasovski <mail.dmitry at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about prototypes as design documentation? This might be implicit
> in 1), but I see it as slightly different from general-purpose
> communication.

Yes - my company uses prototypes for all 5 of the above plus this one.

We do B2B web applications, and our customers have increasingly
demanded that their product documentation be at the "wireframe" level
of detail.   The reason is that their Legal departments are starting
to insist that they review every piece of text on every screen coming
from a 3rd party provider -- difficult to capture for an interactive
app.

After some painful sessions with manually assembling detailed
interaction notes for customers, my team updated our Visio templates
with "internal" and "customer-facing" layers so that we'll be able to
easily turn off internal notes, PDF the whole thing, and send it over.

Cindy

http://www.cindyalvarez.com