Interactive Prototyping
by Richard Rutter & James Box
As web sites and apps demand a richer, more nuanced form of interaction, content and engagement designers are often left trying to capture the mess of ideas and information they want to use. Wireframes are evolving into the ideal tool for defining, designing and documenting the ‘stuff’ designers work with and this workshop will show you how.
Perfect for user experience designers, information architects, visual designers, front-end coders or producers, we’ll cover everything from plotting a site out on sticky notes to presenting your great and glorious wireframe to the people (and what to do with it after that).
To give you a taste of what wireframes can do for you, we’ll be designing a set of wireframes for the latest and greatest social network. By the end of the workshop you’ll know how to use wireframes as a design aid, a documentation methodology and a usability tool. You will have gathered best practices for using wireframes in your process, best bets for efficient use of wireframes and a whole host of design tips along the way.
- The whys and wherefores of prototyping.
- The wireframe as documentation.
- Using wireframes as part of a process.
- From concept to design.
- Interactive wireframes.
- Quick and easy prototyping techniques.
- Using and abusing patterns, libraries and frameworks.
- Designing for user-generated content.
- Documenting complex interactions.
- Representing page states.
- Using the wireframe for usability testing.
- Wireframes in an Agile environment.
Richard is a founding partner and the production director for Clearleft. He has been designing websites and web applications since the birth of the commercial web, over twelve years ago. Richard leads the user experience team at Clearleft, pioneering innovative approaches to designing fantastic experiences for clients and their customers.
James is a self-confessed ‘user experience professional’. Part information architect and part interaction designer, when he’s not crafting sandcastles on the beach, James crafts websites that are fun and easy to use.