Archive for February, 2006



Luke Wroblewski discusses the benefits and drawbacks of “mockups” (or we could assume “prototypes” as well) in his latest article on UX Matters, Live by the Mockup, Die by the Mockup. The article is a nice summary of ideas many of us have been discussing about the benefits and drawbacks of prototyping. But his conclusion […]

Champagne Prototyping

Glenn passed along this link to a paper on a new technique for researching end-user functions for complex applications. Their focus seems to be on adding functionality to an existing complex application, but many of their findings support the need for the likes of protokit to develop rich prototypes quickly.
Unlike classic Wizard of Oz, Champagne […]

So, the conversation I have had with several friends lately regarding Navigator’s aquisition goes like this:
Me: Navigator was bought last week. Now I work for Hitachi Consulting.
Firend: Hitachi? Don’t they make harddrives and TVs? Can you get me an HDTV? 

Yes, they are the same company, but it’s a very big company (think the GE of Japan, they are both very diversified). […]