[IxDA Discuss] True or False: In a perfect world we'd all create html clickable wireframes after the static ones have been don

[David Malouf]

Elizabeth, prototypes are not ONLY about communicating outwardly about
your concepts. I would suggest that prototypes are a primary design
tool for you. 

How can you design in an interactive medium without creating in that
medium? No other design discipline completely ignores its primary
output form and it seems wise to me that we require a basic system of
output modeling as part of our core design methods.

Even if I eventually hand off digital or printed documents to
communicate down stream, I believe that prototypes are not a
replacement for documentation or 2nd fiddle (if ya got time)
artifact, but rather THE primary formation from which documentation
should be derived.

Validation w/ users and stakeholders and communicating ideas up and
down to me are quite necessary, but not primary for prototypes.

The problem is building them (skills) and ingraining them into your
design project plans.


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