On 11/5/07, Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paper is not a prototyping tool. It's a design tool. It's a sketching > tool.
Why can't it be both? Paper is only a tool, and restricting *any* tool's use or application doesn't bring us any value. Many tools (such as you mention below -- X/HTML, CSS, etc) can be used for prototyping or for implementation, depending on who's wielding it -- why deny the same flexibility of purpose for tools which could apply to both sketching and design? And someone mentioned PowerPoint? Are you kidding? For the right audience, I think PowerPoint can be very effective: I'm using it for a large personal project involving some participatory, passionate, and geographically-scattered friends, and it's the best format I've found for our particular uses. Everybody can read and annotate them -- the "review" features, especially comments, are easy for them to create and use, and they can be tagged to specific design elements if need be -- and they're much more malleable than pdfs or images (and much less likely to crash my friends' computers). ;-) Sure, I *could* build and communicate everything via XHTML+JS+etc -- and I will for later prototypes and the final system -- but at this stage those formats would just get in the way of the feedback I'm trying to gather. Why draw lines between various tools and goals? What value does it bring, so long as the goals are addressed appropriately? How is it any different from drawing lines between roles or disciplines? ~Steven --------------------------- Steven Pautz seeking junior- to mid-level IxD/IA/UX/UCD work http://stevenpautz.com/portfolio/ ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
