Effective Prototyping with Excel

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.

• Chapter 1 – Preface – A Developer’s DilemmaChapter 2 – Getting Started – Your First Excel PrototypeChapter 3 – Basics – The Excel Prototyping CanvasChapter 4 – Creating an Excel Prototyping TemplateChapter 5 – Excel Prototyping - StoryboardsChapter 6 – WireframesChapter 7 – Digital Interactive PrototypesChapter 8 – Iterating Prototypes with ExcelChapter 9 – Communicating Your Design in ExcelChapter 10 – Sharing Your Excel PrototypeAppendix A – Useful Techniques with ExcelAppendix B - Nevin Discovers Excel as a Rapid Prototyping Tool

"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