Appendix B. Nevin Discovers Excel as a Rapid Prototyping Tool
First Exposure
My first exposure to Excel as a software prototyping tool came while I was working at PeopleSoft as a senior interaction designer in the Financial Applications User Experience group. I was assigned to a project that was already well into the early stages of application design. The project team gave me some printouts of prototype screens representing the current state of the design so that I could review them and get up to speed with the design. The paper prototypes that I was given were clean and accurate, although their representation of the interface was a bit rough around the edges. Given that this was the early stage of the design process, the prototypes fulfilled ...
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