Still working through all the data from the survey I ran a month ago and came across an interesting term: slap-and-map.
Slap-and-map: slapping images together with HTML to create a prototype.
Archive for July, 2008
Cameron Moll has an interesting blog post — Linkification. The scenario is an album that’s on sale in iTunes for a given price. He’s questioning the best method for linking. Do you link the album, the artist, the name of the store, the price, all of it? He’s even provided visual samples of each and asked readers to vote.
What’s interesting, but not surprising, is the variety in replies. Nearly all of the options have numerous votes and some readers have even provided alternative models.
Last month, I ran a survey investigating a number of things related to prototyping. One of these was a question of the type of prototypes people are often creating.
In order of most common to least common, here they are:
- Paper — 81%
- Hand coded html — 58%
- Auto generated (e.g. Axure, iRise, Visio, Fireworks or similar) — 39%
- Clickable Screenshots (using HTML) — 34%
- Interactive Flash, Flex, AIR, Blend, or similar — 27%
- Keynote or PowerPoint — 24%
- Clickable PDFs — 21%
- Production Environment (e.g. Rails, PHP, .Net, Java, Xcode, C) — 9%
- 3D Models (e.g. Cardboard, Foam Core, Circuit-boards) — 1.2%
Participants were allowed to select any and all methods they used. Close to 200 participants responded, representing a mix of researchers, designers, developers, product managers, and business analysts.
I’ll be posting more findings in the future.