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

[Chris Bernard]

"Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point:  design is inevitable.

The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all."

Douglas Martin



I'm also particular fond of this quote from Clement Mok that he wrote in an op ed piece for Commarts when he was running the AIGA. Now, I don't think this comment applies to people on this list but there 3k people on this list? How many designers in the world?


"There has clearly been a steady decline in the design profession for over 30 years, and the source of that decline is the profession's intractable stasis.

We are unchanged professionals in a changing professional climate, clutching at old idols, while failing to create new offerings, failing to reinvent and reinvigorate the practice when needed, failing to inculcate a professional culture that is accessible and fair."

Clement Mok

Chris Bernard
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Andrei Herasimchuk
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 5:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] What tools do you use for prototyping?


On Nov 12, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Mark Schraad wrote:

> I sooo...  wish I had asked those questions last week.  We have
> different views of what constitutes a prototype. Simple as that.

I know. That has been the basis of the entire debate. But I'll say it
again, from my very first message in this thread:

--

Paper is not a prototyping tool. It's a design tool. It's a sketching
tool. It's a way to get ideas directly from one's brain into the
world with as little information loss as possible. But it's not a
prototyping tool. Paper prototyping is nothing more than iterative
design to help people get the ball rolling and to keep things at a
level of manageable, inexpensive and iterative before getting to
brass tacks with real, pixel precise mockups and a true product
prototype.

XHTML+CSS, Javascript, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash,
ActionScript, etc. This is what our products are built using, so it's
high time those in the field who to call themselves "designers" stop
avoiding learning how to build prototypes using real technology.

--

Obviously, this is my opinion. But nowhere do I say in there is paper
somehow not part of the process.

--
Andrei Herasimchuk

Principal, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world

e. andrei at involutionstudios.com
c. +1 408 306 6422


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