[Sigia-l] your'e invited- ART OF THE PROPOSAL- NYC

[Victor Lombardi]

At 10/30/2002 -0500 07:02 PM, Listera wrote:
>Like sausage, nobody needs to see the work product. Wireframes are for
>wussies. :-)

I hereby declare myself a wussie. Actually, I'm not sure how I would rapid 
prototype an IA design. A user interface yes, but a big honkin' structure? 
Not sure. Though I agree I'd rather keep the wireframes away from my 
clients if I could.

Reminds me of the architecture metaphor: architects still stick blueprints 
in our faces. Why not just rapid prototype the house? Cause it's a rather 
large and expensive proposition, even in prototype format (although 
Christopher Alexander developed some portable walls he could quickly 
assemble to get the "feel" of a space, it's still on a limited scale).

Similarly, it's hard to quickly assemble hundreds or thousands of pages, 
even in prototype format. I think in the future we'll have better tools 
that facilitate this. So maybe we're not wussies, we're just using wussie 
tools.



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