Prototyping just got easier with an extension from Xtnd for Dreamweaver. They currently have an extension for JQuery and Prototype and are working on Mochikit, MooTools, and YUI.
This should make prototyping even easier.
I’ll be speaking on a panel discussing prototyping and agile at the Webdesign International Festival (WiF) April 17th-19th in Limoges, FR. Looks like a lot of fun.
Tufte does a critique of the iPhone interface and there are three criticisms followed by recommendations that seem flat wrong to me. Especially since he seems to contract himself when he makes the recommendations.
I responded to his critique on his site, but just in case he doesn’t “approve” my comment, this is what I wrote:
I really have to disagree with the perspective on the weather and stock screens. You’re forgetting about, or ignoring, context and use.
The stock screens on the iPhone are clearly for tracking data, not for looking at historical data on a stock. Therein lies the difference in design. The screen is designed for just-in-time content, what is the stock doing now, what has it done today, which is appropriate. What you’re suggesting is a historical data view, which wouldn’t be appropriate for daily use. When I use the stock screen on the iPhone, I want to see what’s going on w/the market today, now, not what it’s done for the past 12 months.
Likewise on the weather screen, I want to know what it’s like right now outside. Should I grab a coat? Walk? Get in my car? What about tomorrow, what’s the weather going to be like? The addition of an animated map showing clouds moving doesn’t add value, it adds clutter. And the real value, the temperature and weather conditions, are now reduced to secondary data. It’s quite the opposite of what you say it is.
Finally, on the photo gallery—thin 1 grey pixel line instead of a 10 pixel white space? The thin grey line you propose would create almost no border between images and make them more difficult to scan through and find the right image. I’m really surprised by this recommendation, especially when shortly after you show a graphic from one of your books with t-shirts that has a great deal of white space between them. Seems contradictory.
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