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So in summary: When you have a great idea, translate your intended statement of "we can improve things by doing X instead of Y" to the question "why are you doi
by benohear 15y ago
So in summary: When you have a great idea, translate your intended statement of "we can improve things by doing X instead of Y" to the question "why are you doing Y?".
And again: Paper prototyping. Sticking an interactive bit of paper in front of a user is an effective and inexpensive way to get him to explain the holes in your great idea, and you can adapt it there and then and maybe come up with something that fixes the problem that you were hoping to solve, without creating a ton of other issues.
- j45 15y agoWhy, always before how. A question I like asking is, "Teach me why this needs to be improved". So when a question like this takes us 8 hours a week, every week, comes up, you can say we can save 416 man hours a year if you let me work on this for 40 hours. I'm not sure whether or not there's paper prototyping. I use a lot of different tools, the most important of which helps me whittle down an idea to it's essence. For me that magic happens on whiteboards, and on paper first. I've recently started doing it using a stylus on an iPad and a Galaxy Note with increasing success. I almost prefer the iPad or Galaxy Note because I can keep erasing and refining to get the perfect layout/design.