On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, William R Ward wrote:

> >Ah, I see why we're on opposite sides of the fence - I generally do just
> >the reverse.  After the functional spec is done, including mockups from
> >the interface designer, I produce a working version of the application.
> >This means I do some bare-bones template work to make the thing do its
> >job.  The end result is ugly but functional and testable.  Then I pass it
> >off to the designers who make the thing pretty by editing the templates.
>
> That is making the designers do their job twice, once for the mockup
> and once for the real app.  I don't think that's very efficient...

Often the HTML designers are not the interface designers.  I prefer
interface design to be done through paper-prototyping[1] by the project
managers.  Sometimes artists get involved to make pretty versions of the
prototypes but these are usually just images rather than HTML.

[1] See http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/usability/library/us-paper/
for an excelent summary of the process.

-sam



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