Effective Prototyping for Software Makers

PREFACE

EFFECTIVE PROTOTYPING, WHY THIS BOOK?

Effective Prototyping may seem like an odd title: Who ineffectively prototypes? Actually, we all do. We’d all like to think our prototypes are effective and that we have a sophisticated understanding of prototyping. In reality this isn’t true due to the simple fact no book we know of addresses these concepts. In fact, most prototypes are often either overachieving or underachieving, neither of which serves software-making purposes well. It’s the effective prototype that assures your prototype will hit the mark.

OVERACHIEVING PROTOTYPE

An overachieving prototype artificially wows an audience by showing inappropriate high fidelity too early in the software creation process. An artificial high fidelity, ...