Effective Prototyping with Excel

A Practical Handbook for Developers and Designers
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-12-088582-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Usability professionals and interaction designers; software developers, web application designers, web designers, information architects, information and industrial designers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Nevin

Arent, Michael

Arnowitz, Jonathan

Sampson, Fred

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Tabellenkalkulation Microsoft Excel
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 - Preface - A Developer's Dilemma Chapter 2 - Getting Started - Your First Excel Prototype Chapter 3 - Basics - The Excel Prototyping Canvas Chapter 4 - Creating an Excel Prototyping Template Chapter 5 - Excel Prototyping - Storyboards Chapter 6 - Wireframes Chapter 7 - Digital Interactive Prototypes Chapter 8 - Iterating Prototypes with Excel Chapter 9 - Communicating Your Design in Excel Chapter 10 - Sharing Your Excel Prototype Appendix A - Useful Techniques with Excel Appendix B - Nevin Discovers Excel as a Rapid Prototyping Tool

Über Autor(innen)

Arnowitz, Jonathan
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.

Berger, Nevin
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.

Arent, Michael
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. 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.