[IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?

[Mark Schraad]

> On Nov 6, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Mark Schraad wrote:
>
>> I respectfully disagree Andrei, and I know that I am not alone. We
>> all understand your beliefs, but you are phrasing them as an edict.
>> You can decide this for yourself, or even your own company, but not
>> for the profession or the industry. Sorry.

On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk wrote:
>
> That's all fine and good, but the opposite holds true as well, right?
> In other words, if I'm not allowed to make "edicts" that paper is not
> prototyping, then who are you or anyone else on this list to say to
> say that paper is indeed legitimate prototyping? Or to make such
> claims to the industry and sets those types of expectations with
> clients or non-designer types?

Well unless you think I am either  a moron or a hypocrite, then it  
would stand to reason that I believe this to be point of view, not of  
fact. So effectively what you have stated here is something along the  
lines of, "no I'm not, you are". I guess I expect more from someone  
as experienced and seasoned as you.

> And then we go down the road of it
> depends, it's all personal opinion, etc., at which point, discussing
> anything seems irrelevant, don't you think?
> At the end of the day, I'll make this prediction: In the very near
> future (let's say within ten years), those designers in the high
> technology field that don't increase their skill set to create more
> robust prototypes with their own hands will fall by the wayside as
> those designers that do start to overtake the field.

I will make a prediction as well. Most every aspect of what we do  
will change radically in the next ten years. Andrei, while you are  
occasionally misinformed, I anticipate a more guiding voice from you  
- and you often deliver. It was your demonstrative and absolute tone,  
as well as the repeated message (as if no one heard you) that  
triggered my comment. I have used paper prototypes with great  
results. There is a time for them, and a time for other types of  
prototypes. Various teams I have assembled have used flash, html, css  
and javascript for more than ten years (yes each and all of these for  
that long). Sometime a bit of IMHO goes a long ways. Most of us,  
given an opinion can come to our own conclusion.

> Then obviously it won't matter who has what opinion.

I beg to differ. Opinions matter a great deal when leadership is of  
issue.

Mark