Ajax Impact : Rapid PowerPoint Prototypes for Ajax and Rich Interactions

OPINION

Rapid PowerPoint Prototypes for Ajax and Rich Interactions

05/14/2006, By Bob Moll

As applications take the web from static pages to dynamic screens, how can the designer effectively mock up and vet early-stage dynamic screen designs? PowerPoint provides one possible vehicle.

We have found PowerPoint to be effective because it has very easy to use animation, screen transition and click-through capabilities. While the prototypes we produced were not highly polished, they were highly effective in vetting the ideas for a new website IA with three key groups: stakeholders, developers and graphic designers.

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