Effective Prototyping with Excel

Chapter 9. Communicating Your Design in Excel

In this chapter you will learn how to

▪ Communicate your design, including design specifications

▪ Add a ScreenTip (tooltip) to a content hyperlink

▪ Insert comments

▪ Add annotation areas

Introduction

If a picture can represent a thousand words, a prototype can elicit a thousand and one interpretations. Now that you have created a prototype of your design, you'll want to narrow the number of interpretations. To that end, you can add accompanying communications to your prototype. Prototypes rarely speak for themselves, and even when they do, they generally never tell the complete design story. Without good communications, other stakeholders can neither understand your design intent nor understand its context. ...