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About Dan Harrelson

In this workshop you will:

• Learn how to determine when a prototype is needed
• Determine how to tailor your prototype to a particular audience
• Gather techniques for bringing paper sketches to life
• Understand how interactive sketching can fit in an Agile process
• Acquire a round-up of tools available to designers and developers

Although wireframes have many uses, they are insufficient when designing for rich interactivity. Luckily, there are many other tools designers can use to quickly build interactive sketches. In this workshop, Dan Harrelson, a Senior Technologist at Adaptive Path, will introduce you to a number of approaches that both designers and developers can use to achieve this goal.

Dan will first focus on helping you identify the type of interactivity needed for your audience. After that, you will work through exercises, showing off your concepts and ideas, and then work to find the level of fidelity needed to accomplish your goal. Finally, you will work to determine the best course of action for your project, depending on whether you are user testing or demonstrating a demo to an executive. All of these steps will help you learn to create the right prototype the first time.

This workshop will prove that you don’t need years of programming experience to build an effective prototype. You will learn techniques to bring the production of an interactive sketch within reach, and then discuss ways to incorporate design prototyping into an existing workflow. Along the way, you will participate in hands-on activities, building your own prototype.

This workshop will finish with a review of existing tools available for designers and developers, followed by a demonstration of Adobe’s upcoming Thermo product, with Ethan Eismann, Senior Experience Design Lead of Adobe Thermo, which allows designers to use their existing workflows when creating Flex applications.