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Sep 12
2011

Website & Application Prototyping: Six Best Practices for Maximizing Results

Posted by: Andrea Fidel

Andrea Fidel

Prototyping is a key element to the requirements discovery, definition, and validation process when building web applications. However, it’s all too common for teams to spend too much time in the prototyping phase, thereby defeating the purpose of creating a prototype in the first place. Here are several best practices to ensure you and your team get the most from your prototyping process.

The Six Best Practices of Prototyping:

  1. Prototype just enough.

    You need to get your point across to stakeholders so they can make informed decisions. Simple wireframes often aren’t enough to convey understanding, but don’t fall victim to over-prototyping (from both a functional and graphical fidelity perspective). Remember, the prototype is not the final product. Those who want to create a hi-fi prototype that “fools the end user” into thinking the prototype is actually the final product are setting themselves up for failure. The goal is to effectively communicate ideas so that you can get feedback, not to waste time trying to build a pixel perfect representation of the final product.


Jun 15
2010

Crowdcast Raises $6 Million For ‘Social Business Intelligence’ Solutions

Posted by: DS Community Team

DS Community Team

Crowdcast, a provider of social business intelligence (SBI) solutions, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Alsop-Louie Partners.

The company’s name is a combination of the words ‘crowd’ and ‘forecast’, and its self-declared goal is to help companies find out what their people really know about their businesses, in order to make better strategic leadership decisions.