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Design Prototyping: Bringing Wireframes to Life

Thursday, March 19, 2009
See how "design prototyping" differs from other techniques, and learn how to determine when a prototype is needed. Understand how to tailor your prototype to a particular audience, gather techniques for bringing paper sketches to life, and how interactive sketching can fit in an Agile process.
  • Dan Harrelson
    Dan Harrelson is a senior technologist at Adaptive Path. He has an extensive background in web application development, IT administration, systems analysis, and design. He has over 10 years of technical and business experience, with expertise in all aspects of architecting and coding online media. Dan's unique understanding of both design and back-end systems allows him to help clients realize their product's full potential. Prior to joining Adaptive Path, Dan was the Director of Technology at Extractable where he directed the technical aspects of all projects as well as developing front-end applications and back-end management tools. He was also a senior web developer for Cable & Wireless, designing and overseeing much of the development of the international telecom's corporate web site as well as a web developer for Nortel Networks. Past clients include Charles Schwab, EA, Vivendi, FedEx, Sun, Visa, and SanDisk. Dan graduated with a bachelor's in Graphic Communication from Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo.

6 Comments

  • Interesting. I personally use Axure Pro for creating prototypes.

  • Good talk.It would be nice to have a list of recommended software used for prototyping (I heard Expression Blend was mentioned, but I could not hear them all).

  • Mark Willian (gravatar)

    Mark Willian said
    June 10, 2009

    Definitely great talk. I think ForeUI (http://www.foreui.com) is a good tool for prototyping.

  • Frederic Vandaele (gravatar)

    Frederic Vandaele said
    June 26, 2009

    Another great tool that I use everyday is Pencil (http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/). It's a free Firefox extension also avaiable as a stand-alone application.

  • Efraim (gravatar)

    Efraim said
    July 06, 2009

    Great, thorough talk!
    I like the development process you layed out.

    You might want to look into: www.guimags.com.
    I used to do prototypes with a lot of tools (illustrator, flash, whatever), but now I hardly even use a computer at all using this tool!

    -E

  • Pauline (gravatar)

    Pauline said
    January 09, 2010

    Great presentation!
    I do interactive wireframes useing Visio and VisDynamica http://visdynamica.com/. I recommend

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