[IxDA Discuss] The Five Types of Prototypes

[Cindy Alvarez]

Actual wireframes - we might show a "canonical" screen, and use the
callouts to show what other text may appear under different
conditions.

A working prototype would better illustrate the core user experience,
but would be very difficult for someone with a checklist to go through
and make sure they had reviewed every bit of text.
It's not uncommon for a customer to come back to us and say "Legal is
fine with the normal text, but these 2 error messages out of a
possible 10 they want to reword during the design consulting phase".

Cindy

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On 10/1/07, Todd Zaki Warfel <lists at toddwarfel.com> wrote:
> Are you referring to wireframes, or a prototype here? What does legal use to
> go through?
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> On Oct 1, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Cindy Alvarez wrote:
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> We do B2B web applications, and our customers have increasingly
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> demanded that their product documentation be at the "wireframe" level
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> of detail.   The reason is that their Legal departments are starting
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> to insist that they review every piece of text on every screen coming
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> from a 3rd party provider -- difficult to capture for an interactive
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> app.
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