When I first create a software prototype, I notice that my very first versions of things often don’t actually do anything. They look like they should, but they don’t.<\/p>\n
Instead, I put all of the pieces in their places, so I can see where all my buttons, sliders and other doodads will go. Then I spend some time rearranging things until it all looks nice.<\/p>\n
Only then do I wire things up to actually be functional. It’s sort of like sketching things out in pencil, only in software.<\/p>\n
I have come to realize that this purely aesthetic exercise is an important part of the process. Before going any further I need to feel that everything in the right place.<\/p>\n
After all, if what I see on the dashboard doesn’t make sense to me, I’m not going to want to drive the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I first create a software prototype, I notice that my very first versions of things often don’t actually do anything. They look like they should, but they don’t. Instead, I put all of the pieces in their places, so I can see where all my buttons, sliders and other doodads will go. Then I … Continue reading “Notes on prototyping”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22464,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463\/revisions\/22464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}