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

[dave malouf]

I see in Jim's email the piece about the level of detail in his
specifications. Detail is important indeed. 

But I wonder if we had tools that were good enough so that the time
and energy it took to do that level of specification is the same
amount of time it would take to just build it, then we wouldn't need
to specify it?

Like the other David, I'm doing a project in Blend right now and our
goal is to really concentrate more energy on building usable code than
for creating documentation. Now since this is a 1.0 product, we'll
see how it all pans out, but we already know that a standard designer
with even basic Flash level programming skills isn't enough to get
the level of code we need to truly do this hand-off the way we want
(& now) need to.

The tools themselves REALLY aren't good enough. Better visual or
human language programming tools are really needed here. 

I should be able to create a state transition on click on a specific
hot spot as easily in Flash or Blend as I could in powerpoint.
Anything short of that and IMHO the tools fail.

-- dave


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