Effective Prototyping with Excel: A practical handbook for developers and designers (Interactive Technologies)

By
Nevin Berger, Ziff Davis Media, San Francisco, CA, USA
Michael Arent, SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Jonathan Arnowitz, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
Fred Sampson, IBM Silicon Valley Lab

Description
Although recognized as a key to the design process, prototyping often falls victim to budget cuts, deadlines, or lack of access to sophisticated tools. This can lead to sloppy and ineffective prototypes or the abandonment of them altogether. Rather than lose this important step, people are turning to Microsoft Excel® to create effective, simple, and inexpensive prototypes. Conveniently, the software is available to nearly everyone, and most are proficient in its basic functionality. Effective Prototyping with Excel offers how–to guidance on how everyone can use basic Excel skills to create prototypes – ranging from narrative wire frames to hi–fidelity prototypes. A wide array of software design problems and business demands are solved via practical step–by–step examples and illustrations.

Included in series
Interactive Technologies

Audience:
Usability professionals and interaction designers; software developers, web application designers, web designers, information architects, information and industrial designers.



About the Author:

Nevin Berger is design director at Ziff Davis Media. Previously he was a senior interaction designer at Oracle Corporation and Peoplesoft, Inc., and has held creative director positions at World Savings and OFOTO, Inc.

Michael Arent is the director of user interface standards at SAP, and has previously held positions at Peoplesoft, Inc, Adobe Systems, Inc, MetaDesign,Sun Microsystems, and Apple Computer, Inc. He holds a number of U.S. and international patents.

Jonathan Arnowitz is a User Experience Architect at Google Inc. and is the co–editor–in–chief of Interactions Magazine. Most recently Jonathan was a User Experience Architect at SAP Labs and was a Senior User Experience Designer at Peoplesoft. He is a member of the SIGCHI extended executive committee, and was a founder of DUX, the first ever joint conference of ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, AIGA Experience Design Group, and STC.