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Effective Prototyping with Excel: A practical handbook for developers and designers (Interactive Technologies)
 
 

Effective Prototyping with Excel: A practical handbook for developers and designers (Interactive Technologies) [Paperback]

Nevin Berger (Author), Michael Arent (Author), Jonathan Arnowitz (Author), Fred Sampson (Author)

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0120885824 978-0120885824 January 22, 2009 1
Although recognized as a key to the design process, prototyping often falls victim to budget cuts, deadlines, or lack of access to sophisticated tools. This can lead to sloppy and ineffective prototypes or the abandonment of them altogether. Rather than lose this important step, people are turning to Microsoft Excel® to create effective, simple, and inexpensive prototypes. Conveniently, the software is available to nearly everyone, and most are proficient in its basic functionality.

Effective Prototyping with Excel offers how-to guidance on how everyone can use basic Excel skills to create prototypes - ranging from narrative wire frames to hi-fidelity prototypes. A wide array of software design problems and business demands are solved via practical step-by-step examples and illustrations.

. Step-by-step guide to prototyping with a simple and affordable tool nearly everyone already has on their desktop.
. Quickly and easily allows web and software designers to explore usability, design alternatives, and test theories prior to starting production.
. Perfect companion to Effective Prototyping for Software Makers - with the same author team and full-color treatment, useful case studies, and hands-on exercises.

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"Collaboration across marketing, design, engineering, and QA organizations is key to the successful creation of a new software product. The Excel prototyping method is the only approach I am familiar with that allows all these stakeholders the same platform for communication without having to learn lots of new tools."
- Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, SAP User Experience

"It is always a challenge to find good tools for interactive rapid prototyping. The authors have created an excellent methodology that allows both novice and advanced user experience professionals to use their knowledge of common desktop tools to quickly illustrate and test their ideas for interactive products."
- Jeremy Ashley, Vice President, Applications User Experience, Oracle

About the Author

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.

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.

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.


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First Sentence:
In an unnamed software company, long ago and far away, a developer learned that his product was going to have little access to the company's user interface design resources. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
site map diagram, prototyping template, library worksheet, starter worksheet, annotation area, interactive prototypes, buttons worksheet, storyboard prototype, effective prototyping, tab rows, wireframe image, template worksheet, worksheet tab, dolor sit amet, hyperlinked text, task flow, hyperlink dialog box, prototyping tool, text entry box
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Create Your First Excel Prototype, Format Cells, The Tabs Worksheet, Hotel Finder, Prototyping Canvas, San Francisco, Advanced Search, Creating Annotation Areas, Basic Shapes, Wireframe Updated, The Table Template Worksheet, Morgan Kaufmann, Image Library, Add Text, The Boxes Et Buttons Worksheet, Hotel Page, Creating the Berger Books Storyboard, Custom Contacts, Design Team Feedback, Nevin Berger, New Contact, Jonathan Arnowitz, Michael Arent, Sample Text, Web Page
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