Effective Prototyping for Software Makers (Interactive Technologies)

Jonathan Arnowitz,Michael Arent,Nevin Berger

ISBN 10: 0120885689 / ISBN 13: 9780120885688

Published by Morgan Kaufmann 22/01/2007, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Effective Prototyping for Software Makers (Interactive Technologies)
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann 22/01/2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0120885689
• ISBN 13: 9780120885688
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Effective Prototyping for Software Makers is a practical, informative resource that will help anyone―whether or not one has artistic talent, access to special tools, or programming ability―to use good prototyping style, methods, and tools to build prototypes and manage for effective prototyping.

This book features a prototyping process with guidelines, templates, and worksheets; overviews and step-by-step guides for nine common prototyping techniques; an introduction with step-by-step guidelines to a variety of prototyping tools that do not require advanced artistic skills; templates and other resources used in the book available on the Web for reuse; clearly-explained concepts and guidelines; and full-color illustrations and examples from a wide variety of prototyping processes, methods, and tools.

This book is an ideal resource for usability professionals and interaction designers; software developers, web application designers, web designers, information architects, information and industrial designers.

* A prototyping process with guidelines, templates, and worksheets;* Overviews and step-by-step guides for 9 common prototyping techniques;* An introduction with step-by-step guidelines to a variety of prototyping tools that do not require advanced artistic skills;* Templates and other resources used in the book available on the Web for reuse;* Clearly-explained concepts and guidelines;* Full-color illustrations, and examples from a wide variety of prototyping processes, methods, and tools. * www.mkp.com/prototyping

About the Authors

Jonathan Arnowitz is a User Experience Architect at Google Inc. and is the co-editor-in-chief of Interactions Magazine. Most recently Jonathan was a User Experience Architect at SAP Labs and was a Senior User Experience Designer at Peoplesoft. He is a member of the SIGCHI extended executive committee, and was a founder of DUX, the first ever joint conference of ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, AIGA Experience Design Group, and STC.

Michael Arent is the director of user interface standards at SAP, and has previously held positions at Peoplesoft, Inc, Adobe Systems, Inc, MetaDesign,Sun Microsystems, and Apple Computer, Inc. He holds a number of U.S. and international patents.

Nevin Berger is design director at Ziff Davis Media. Previously he was a senior interaction designer at Oracle Corporation and Peoplesoft, Inc., and has held creative director positions at World Savings and OFOTO, Inc.