haveuheard's favorite 08/07/2008

• Gui Prototyping Tools

  tags: prototyping, design, tool

• GUUUI - Results from a survey of web prototyping tools usage

  tags: gui, survey, prototyping, tool, usage, designer, design, ux

  • Some key findings:

    
    

    
    
    • There is currently no distinct consensus on what is the best tool
      to use for web prototyping
    
    
    • HTML and diagramming tools are the most commonly type of tools used
      for web prototyping
    
    
    • Macromedia Dreamveawer and Microsoft Visio are the most widely used
      tools
    
    
    • Respondents feel that the tools they use fall short on some high
      priority criteria, such as laying out and making changes to pages
    
    
    • Few seem to be perfectly happy with the tools they are using though
      users of HTML tools are strikingly more content than users of diagramming
      tools

  • The results showed that prototyping tools primarily have to support:

    
    

    
    
    • Quick and easy revision of pages
    
    
    • Quick and easy layout of pages
    
    
    • An easy way to demonstrate the prototype to clients and team members
    
    
    • Quick and easy site wide revisions
    
    

    
    

    Less important is it that a web prototyping tool:
    
    

    
    

    
    
    • Is able to simulate advanced functionality (e.g. scrolling and selecting
      items from a drop-down list)
    
    
    • Is easy to learn
    
    
    • Produces good-looking prototypes
    
    

    
    

    The answers about whether the tools that the respondents use live
    up to their requirements showed that the tools fall short on some high
    priority criteria. They primarily fail in supporting:

    
    

    
    
    • Quick and easy revision of pages
    
    
    • Quick and easy site wide revisions
    
    
    • Quick and easy layout of pages
  • • HTML tools have a high overall score, with site wide revision being
      the major problem
    
    
    • Diagramming doesn't score high on any criteria, and is considered
      particularly poor at supporting site wide revisions and simulating
      advanced functionality
    
    
    • The respondents using a presentation tool find that their tools
      are very easy to use and suitable for presentation and setting up pages
    
    
    • Respondents using non-computerized tools feel hat the approach fall
      short when having to do site wide revisions

• Dotty Studio | 애플의 디자인 프로세스와 디자인 중심의 조직

  tags: design, apple, process

• Designing for Ludic Aspects of Everyday Life

  tags: gaver, researcher, probe, cultural, latent, visual, ucd, method

• A List Apart: Articles: Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe

  tags: probe, visual, user, ucd, cultural, method