[Sigia-l] Re: Where's the reality?

[Jonathan Baker-bates]

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> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Trenouth, John
> Sent: 13 March 2006 18:25
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Re: Where's the reality?
> 
> Leisa Reichelt said:
> 
> > I'm toying with the idea of ditching Visio and learning how 
> to output 
> > good quality HTML templates that developers might be able to re-use 
> > and that clients could physically play with
> 
> In my experience it would be a huge mistake to forgo lo-fi 
> prototyping and just jump right into hi-fi.
> 
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> "That looks great, and it works.  Let's ship it!"  "but this 
> is just a shallow prototype front-end."  "Sure, but it looks 
> great, let's ship it."  (I've had this conversation a few times).

And that's assuming you even get to that stage. Unless you make the
decision from the start to build the application from the prototype, in
my experience there's a danger that flat HTML (even with a dose of DHTML
or Flash) starts lagging so far behind the spec that it ceases to be
useful in any way, least of all for developers.