Jonathan Arnowitz-Taylor is a Design Manager and novelist whose fiction illuminates the intricate landscape of alternative LGBTQ coming-of-age experiences. He is also currently working on a major motion picture screenplay to be announced soon.
Design in the ArnoSphere
One of the ingenious cheats of statistics is to “prove” that you are correct by accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative. To be a master of deception you do, of course, need tools. Not of the rabbit-and the-magic-hat variety.
Design in the ArnoSphere
The book I co-wrote with Michael Arent and Nevin Berger remains still the only thorough attempt to understand prototyping. In the coming series of posts on prototyping.
Design in the ArnoSphere
But those are all vague terms and do not really help you get control of your prototype. And getting control is the point of the definition of a prototype that I want to discuss.
Design in the ArnoSphere
There are many layers of complexity and if you do not understand them, instead of controlling a prototype, the prototype will control you or worse victimize you. So let’s begin with some prototyping characteristics...
Design in the ArnoSphere
Professionalism seems to be an amorphous concept in the UX profession. And why not, it seems anyone with an unembarassing resume can get a UX job doing the most unqualified work imaginable. Here's a quick litmus test.