Effective Prototyping With Excel - A Practical Handbook for Developers and Designers

Although recognized as a key to the design process, prototyping often falls victim to budget cuts, deadlines, or lack of access to sophisticated tools. Rather than lose this step, people are turning to Microsoft Excel[Registered] to create effective, simple, and inexpensive prototypes. This book offers step-by-step guidance to prototyping.

List of contents

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

Report

"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

Product details

• Authors: Michael Arent, Arent Michael, Jonathan Arnowitz, Jonathan Arent Arnowitz, Arnowitz Jonathan, Nevin Berger, Nevin (Ziff Davis Media Berger, Berger Nevin, Fred Sampson, Sampson Fred
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2009
• EAN: 9780120885824
• ISBN: 978-0-12-088582-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Interactive Technologies; Interactive Technologies; Morgan Kaufmann Series in Inte
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Software Engineering, Excel, COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General, Spreadsheet software, COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Spreadsheets