Effective Prototyping with Excel: A Practical Handbook for Developers and Designers

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Nevin Berger (Ziff Davis Media, San Francisco, CA, USA) Michael Arent (SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA)

Effective Prototyping with Excel

A Practical Handbook for Developers and Designers

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)

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Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
08 January 2009

Excel; Software Engineering

Series: Interactive Technologies

Prototyping is a key step in the development of successful products. Yet budgetary restrictions, deadlines, and lack of access to sophisticated tools often lead to sloppy, ineffective prototyping.

Designers need efficient visualization tools that quickly communicate ideas, and help improve the realization of their ideas.

Effective Prototyping for Excel offers just that by illustrating how anyone can use basic Excel skills to create prototypes.

Excel is available on virtually every desktop, and most professionals are proficient with at least its basic functionality.

This book offers step-by-step guidance of how to see a prototyping project through from start to finish, in the context of collaborative teams and respective work environment. A range of software design problems and business demands are solved as practical examples complemented by full color illustrations, offering the a fast, cost-effective and reliable tool for prototyping.
* Presents the only complete, step-by-step guide to prototyping with a tool that nearly everyone knows how to use and already has on their desktop
*Allows developers to easily present their design visions through simple and effective methods that don't bust the budget
*The perfect companion to Effective Prototyping for Software Makers - featuring the same author team and full-color treatment

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)
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9780120885824
ISBN 10: 0120885824
Series: Interactive Technologies
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 08 January 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 – Preface – A Developer’s Dilemma Chapter 2 – Getting Started – Your First Excel Prototype Chapter 3 – Basics – The Excel Prototyping Canvas Chapter 4 – Creating an Excel Prototyping Template Chapter 5 – Excel Prototyping - Storyboards Chapter 6 – Wireframes Chapter 7 – Digital Interactive Prototypes Chapter 8 – Iterating Prototypes with Excel Chapter 9 – Communicating Your Design in Excel Chapter 10 – Sharing Your Excel Prototype Appendix A – Useful Techniques with Excel Appendix B - Nevin Discovers Excel as a Rapid Prototyping Tool

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.

Reviews for Effective Prototyping with Excel: A Practical Handbook for Developers and Designers

Collaboration across marketing, design, engineering, and QA organizations is key to the successful creation of a new software product. The Excel prototyping method is the only approach I am familiar with that allows all these stakeholders the same platform for communication without having to learn lots of new tools. --Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, SAP User Experience It is always a challenge to find good tools for interactive rapid prototyping. The authors have created an excellent methodology that allows both novice and advanced user experience professionals to use their knowledge of common desktop tools to quickly illustrate and test their ideas for interactive products. --Jeremy Ashley, Vice President, Applications User Experience, Oracle