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

[Fred Beecher]

On 11/8/07, Andrei Herasimchuk <andrei at involutionstudios.com> wrote:
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> I never mentioned anything about skipping lo-fidelity or skipping the
> design process in general. Why are you (and others) making that leap
> from what I'm saying?


One of the things you said seemed to indicate that you felt we should *just*
be doing hi-fi prototyping. It seems I've misunderstood

Also, you mentioned there are situations in which *not* using
> (emphasis yours) hi-fi prototypes make sense. Again, if budget and
> time were not an issue, which situations are you then referring to?


Actually, I was talking about there being situations not using *lo-fi*
prototypes makes sense. For example, the users of one system I've worked on
aren't very Web savvy to begin with and are resistant to change on top of
that. Presenting wireframe-looking prototypes of new functionality to this
audience would just confuse them and give us bad data. So what I do is work
with the client to make a higher fidelity prototype... matching fonts,
graphics colors, etc. We get much better information from testing in that
situation.


- Fred