Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development

If you believe that you have a firm understanding on HTML prototyping, think again. Heck, after reading the piece below, I discovered a lot points that I simply had not even considered before. Great read, you will likely come away smarter for having read it - check it out…

Chances are, you use some sort of prototyping to illustrate Web interfaces for clients and stakeholders, and rely on those prototypes for approval. Whether you’re using visual design comps, wireframes, site maps, process flows, page description diagrams (PDDs), or a combination of these, your goal is always the same. You want to mitigate the cost of making changes.

Unfortunately, the traditional design documents don’t always save us time or money. In some cases, they’re actually more expensive because they fail to accurately account for all of the factors involved in building a Web application. Additionally, due to the static nature of the documents, they present a challenge when representing highly dynamic pages that rely on DOM scripting and AJAX. Source: Digital Web Magazine

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