April 1, 2007
@ 07:55 PM

Started the first iteration of the profile pages for the contractor users, paper prototyping is the only quick and effective way of getting the design right. Lots of people have gone to great depths to explain the concept so I won’t repeat their work here. One part I never hear people talk about is the ability to capture the drawings directly onto a computer using a desktop tablet or tablet pc. I have used an HP TC1100 (ebay has quite a few under £500) for about two years and used the tablet capability quite a lot, mostly when capturing ideas and drawings of things I know I want to share with other people. One Note  is consistently good for this job and really does a sterling job at converting my messy handwriting. The export to mht option grabs all of the bits together so you can send it on as one file, some email clients don't like mht but you can zip it first. The other option which I used for this project was to draw and scan the interfaces out, drawing the multiple states of the page where necessary.


 
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