HTML Wireframes and Prototypes: All Gain and No Pain


“Using HTML as the basis for your wireframing and prototyping can be a quick and rewarding experience with fabulous benefits, including easier user testing, improved client communication, and faster, more effective use of design time.”
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Brands Navigate the Blogosphere

What do we do now? An understandable reaction to finding a blog post slamming your brand. And a valid one. What are we supposed to do now? How a brand reacts to this question can be the difference between smothering a fire and throwing gasoline on it.

Yet many brands fail to respond correctly. And it matters more than ever. According to BIGresearch’s June 2006 Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, 87 percent of consumers research products online before buying them in a traditional store environment.
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Poll results: 50.4% of respondents maximise windows

Windows and Linux users maximise to a similar extent, while Mac
users are much less likely to maximise. I expected that, but I did
think fewer Mac users and more Windows users would maximise.
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Corporate Blogging & Podcasting: Financial Times Article on Web 2.0

“Brands are completely exposed in social media,”

Who says that elephantine old media can’t learn a few new dance steps every now and again? See what we’ve done for you this week – a bright new look, with this column being pummelled, stretched and contorted into an entirely different shape.
Hard-core Web 2.0 types may laugh and accuse us of merely “rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic”. But I say: you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. (And, by the way, I’m sure the guy who rearranged the deck-chairs on the Titanic did a perfectly reasonable job. Show some respect.)
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Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development

I found myself, once again discussing the benefits of prototyping web sites with one of our clients and found this rather interesting article by Garrett Dimon. At newbrandmedia we tend to use simple blogging tools like Blogger or WordPress to quickly prototype sites for our clients

Chances are, you use some sort of prototyping to illustrate Web interfaces for clients and stakeholders, and rely on those prototypes for approval. Whether you’re using visual design comps, wireframes, site maps, process flows, page description diagrams (PDDs), or a combination of these, your goal is always the same. You want to mitigate the cost of making changes.
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