Business Week has published a review of Bill Buxton's book Sketching User Experience.
To quote:
"Sketching User Experience is, nominally, a book about product design. But it would be just as accurate to say that it's a book about software development, or, more generally, about the often broken process of bringing new products to market..."
"For Buxton, the need to rethink the development process by inserting design into the front-end is all the more urgent because new technology ... introduce new levels of complexity to the challenge of product design."
"Buxton takes pains to distinguish sketches from prototypes, which are more detailed, more expensive, and more focused on testing or proving a single idea. If sketching is about asking questions, prototyping is about suggesting answers. Sketching takes place at the beginning of the development process, prototyping only later."
Links:
- Business Week review of the book

- The book at Amazon.com

- The book at Amazon.co.uk

Henrik Olsen
- June 03, 2007 - via Putting People First
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