Death to Wireframes, Long Live Rapid Prototyping

Static wireframes are a drag on the whole design process. Prototyping makes things a little better allowing you to stitch together static wireframes or mockups while adding basic interactions. Rapid prototyping with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is even better, faster, increases collaboration and improves the iteration process. Kill your wireframes. Long live rapid prototyping.

Given originally at ConvergeSE 2012, then for UX Web Summit, Confoo & a complete update for UX Madison.

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1. DEATH TO WIREFRAMES RAPID LONG LIVE PROTOTYPING
2. 1. A TYPICAL PROCESS 2. KILLING IT WITH FIRE 3. FROM THE ASHES 4. RAPID PROTOTYPES 5. QUESTIONS
3. MANUFACTURING, PRINT, AGENCY, STARTUP, ENTERPRISE, PRODUCT, EDUCATION, CONSULTING 13 JOBS / 15 YEARS
5. TYPICAL PROCESS DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY
6. TYPICAL PROCESS DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY • STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS • BUSINESS GOALS • RISK ANALYSIS • COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS • PROJECT BRIEF • CONTENT • STATEMENT OF WORK • FUNCTIONAL SPECS
7. TYPICAL PROCESS DOCUMENTATION
8. TYPICAL PROCESS DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY • STATIC WIREFRAMES • PHOTOSHOP COMPS
9. TYPICAL PROCESS MORE DOCUMENTATION
10. TYPICAL PROCESS MORE DOCUMENTATION
11. TYPICAL PROCESS MORE DOCUMENTATION
12. TYPICAL PROCESS MORE DOCUMENTATION
13. TYPICAL PROCESS DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY • HTML • CSS • JAVASCRIPT • BACKEND
14. TYPICAL PROCESS DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY
15. TYPICAL PROCESS DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY
16. MONTHS PASS (OR MAYBE YEARS)
17. TYPICAL PROCESS DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY
18. TYPICAL PROCESS • CLIENTS • STAKEHOLDERS • WIREFRAMES • PHOTOSHOP COMPS • HTML • CSS • JAVASCRIPT • BACKEND DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY • STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS • BUSINESS GOALS • RISK ANALYSIS • COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS • PROJECT BRIEF • CONTENT • STATEMENT OF WORK • FUNCTIONAL SPECS OR NOT BECAUSE LEGAL DIDN’T DO THEIR DO DILIGENCE AND THE PRODUCT YOU WERE BUILDING WAS PATENTED BY ANOTHER COMPANY SO YOU JUST WASTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND A YEAR AND A HALF OF MANPOWER ON A PRODUCT THAT CAN’T BE LAUNCHED AND YOU CAN’T SHOW ANY OF YOUR WORK BECAUSE THE LAWYERS WON’T LET YOU.
20. WIREFRAMES
21. http://www.analyticdesigngroup.com/files/ADGi-home-wireframe_0.jpg
23. WIREFRAMES NOT SUITED FOR DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS
24. WIREFRAMES OPEN TO INTERPRETATION
25. WIREFRAMES NOT USER FRIENDLY
26. WIREFRAMES CREATES A LOB IT OVER THE FENCE MENTALITY
27. WIREFRAMES DRAGS DOWN THE ENTIRE PROCESS
28. MOCKUPS
29. http://www.analyticdesigngroup.com/files/ADGi-home-wireframe_0.jpg
30. MOCKUPS PLAGUED BY THE SAME PROBLEMS OF WIREFRAMES
31. MOCKUPS TIME CONSUMING PIXEL PERFECT DETAIL
32. MOCKUPS DON’T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT USER INTERACTIONS
33. MOCKUPS DON’T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE EBB AND FLOW OF THE WEB
34. MOCKUPS SETS UNREALISTIC AESTHETIC EXPECTATIONS FOR CLIENTS
35. MOCKUPS DESIGN CHANGES CONTINUALLY OCCUR CAUSING LOST HOURS IN DEVELOPMENT REWORK
36. MOCKUPS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLY TO MANAGE IN A RESPONSIVE CONTEXT
37. WHY DO WE CREATE WIREFRAMES?
38. TO CREATE STRUCTURE
39. WHY DO WE CREATE MOCKUPS?
40. TO CREATE AESTHETICS
41. WIREFRAMES
42. WIREFRAMES
43. MOCKUPS
44. MOCKUPS
45. FROM THE ASHES
46. “SPEED FIRST, AESTHETICS SECOND.” – JASON FREID
47. CONCURRENT PROCESS DISCOVERY DESIGN DEVELOP • STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS • BUSINESS GOALS • USER RESEARCH • USER STORIES • PERSONAS • SKETCHES • STYLE TILES • ELEMENT COLLAGES • STYLE GUIDES • RAPID PROTOTYPE • BACKEND ITERATE & TEST DEPLOY
48. STYLE TILES
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58. ELEMENT COLLAGES
62. STYLE GUIDES
68. Style guide HOME IDENTITY WEBSITES SANDSTONE OVERVIEW BUTTONS COLORS FORMS GRIDS TABLES & LISTS TABZILLA TYPEFACES EXAMPLES COMMUNITY SITES DOMAIN STRATEGY COMMUNICATIONS PRODUCTS Sandstone grid system Sandstone grid system Responsive Responsive grids grids The default grid system for Sandstone is 12 columns at a width of 940px. See the chart to the right and the grid examples below for further details including tablet and smartphone sizes. Screen format Width Column Gutter # of col. Smartphone (vert.) 320px 40px 20px 5 col Smartphone (horiz.) 480px fluid expansion of smartphone Tablet 768px 40px 20px 12 col Desktop 990px 60px 20px 12 col Download PSDs Download PSDs Desktop Tablet Phone Smartphone Smartphone Tablet Tablet PREV NEXT
69. 0. Overview 0. Overview 1. Buttons 1. Buttons 2. Forms 2. Forms 3. Source Code 3. Source Code 4. Text Styling 4. Text Styling 5. Listings 5. Listings 6. Boxed Groups 6. Boxed Groups 7. Icons 7. Icons 8. Navigation 8. Navigation 9. Behavior 9. Behavior 10. Discussion 10. Discussion 11. Colors 11. Colors 12. Animations 12. Animations 13. Select Menu 13. Select Menu 14. Blank slate 14. Blank slate 15. Alerts 15. Alerts 16. Pagehead 16. Pagehead 17. Repo selector 17. Repo selector 2.1 Typical form groups — <dl.form> with a <dt> containing the label and ` containing the form elements. .required - This group is required to submit the form. <dl class="form"> <dt><label>Example Text</label></dt> <dd><input type="text" class="textfield" value="Example Value"></dd> </dl> <dl class="form"> <dt><label>Example Label</label></dt> <dd> <select> <option>Choose an option</option> <option>Git</option>   Sign up Sign up Sign in Sign in CSS Styleguide Overview Overview Styling & CSS Styling & CSS Markup & Templates Markup & Templates Behavior & JavaScript Behavior & JavaScript Ruby Ruby Words Words Mobile Mobile Example Value Choose an option Example Text Example Label Example Value Choose an option .required Example Text * Example Label * Explore Explore Features Features Enterprise Enterprise Blog Blog Search or type a command ? ?
70. Chris Chris Sign Out Sign Out Search caring.com Backgrounds Reading text basic paragraph or line. Keep the line height at 21px to preserve out vertical rhythm. Contributed (UGC) text basic paragraph or line. Keep the line height at 21px to preserve out vertical rhythm. Caption or Date Link Bulleted List Containers .low-priority-area: Only transparent backgrounds are allowed for this container type. Forms Form instructions come at the top of the form or at the top of a field group. They tell a user what to do and blah blah blah. Standard input field Helper text Standard drop down -- Choose one -- Selected radio button Not selected radio button Typography H1 H2 H3 H4 Styles A-Z Typographic Care Senior Layout Directory BG & Container Matters Caring Forms My Widgets
71. Introduction Introduction Documentation Syntax Documentation Syntax Generate Styleguides Generate Styleguides View the code on GitHub View the code on GitHub KSS is intended to help automate the creation of a living styleguide. A styleguide serves as a place to publish KSS documentation and visualize different states of UI elements defined in your CSS. It’s sometimes hard to explain what a living styleguide is. The best way to explain is through examples. The GitHub CSS Styleguide is a good example of a living styleguide generated with KSS. In particular, you can see the value of KSS on pages like the buttons section. Generating your own styleguide Generating a styleguide with KSS is pretty easy with Rails, Sinatra or any other framework that you can include gems with. These instructions are for setting up a KSS styleguide with the Ruby programming language. Please keep in mind KSS is not a Ruby-only program! This is just one possible implementation of many. Help me write a binary generator to fix this! In the controller In the controller, create a new instance of the KSS parser like so: # Renders the css styleguide in accordance to KSS. def styleguide @styleguide = Kss::Parser.new("#{RACK_ROOT}public/stylesheets") case params[:reference].to_i when 1.0 render :template => "styleguide/css/buttons" when 2.0 render :template => "styleguide/css/forms" when 3.0 render :template => "styleguide/css/icons" end end
72. Kalei - Style guide Kalei - Style guide Generates bootstrap-like documentation for your own CSS! This project aims at making sure your style sheets are fully documented whilst being synchronized with your webpages styles. To do this it actually uses your live stylesheets in so that at anytime you can review how your styleguide looks. This website is a live example generated from Kalei's style.css Star Star 292 292 Fork Fork 51 51 Getting started 1. Download the repository (git clone git://github.com/thomasdavis/kaleistyleguide.git) 2. Serve it on a HTTP server and it should work! 3. Edit js/config.js to point at your own styles.css Rails Gem
73. HTTPS clone URL https://github.com/darcyclarke/DSS.git You can clone with HTTPS, or Subversion.  latest commit 7fd92eabc0 Documented Style Sheets Merge pull request #44 from darcyclarke/bug/fix-whitespace-in-markup shanejonas authored 7 months ago  .gitignore Fixed state parser, added some more styling to example docs and modif… 7 months ago  LICENSE-MIT Added Grunt support 7 months ago  README.md Update _dss reference 7 months ago  dss.js add newlines back in markup 7 months ago  package.json Update _dss reference 7 months ago   README.md README.md Official Logo NPM Package DSS, Documented Style Sheets, is a comment styleguide and parser for CSS, LESS, STYLUS, SASS and SCSS code. In most cases, you will want to include the DSS parser in a build step that will generate documentation files automatically. grunt-dss is the official DSS grunt task which does just that.   Sign up Sign up Sign in Sign in 62 12   Star Star   Fork Fork darcyclarke / DSS PUBLIC    Code Code   Issues Issues 3 3   Pull Requests Pull Requests 0 0   Wiki Wiki   Pulse Pulse   Graphs Graphs   Network Network   ?   Clone in Desktop Clone in Desktop   Download ZIP Download ZIP  95 commits  9 branches  0 releases  5 contributors     master master branch: DSS /  … DSS Generating Documentation Explore Explore Features Features Enterprise Enterprise Blog Blog Search or type a command This repository This repository ? ?
74. StyleDocco StyleDocco generates documentation and style guide documents from your stylesheets. Stylesheet comments will be parsed through Markdown and displayed in a generated HTML document. You can write HTML code prefixed with 4 spaces or between code fences ( ``` ) in your comments, and StyleDocco shows a preview with the styles applied, and displays the example HTML code. The previews are rendered in resizable iframes to make it easy to demonstrate responsive designs at different viewport sizes. Suggestions, feature requests and bug reports are very welcome, either at GitHub or on Twitter (@jacobrask). Installation StyleDocco requires Node.js. After installing Node.js, run npm install -fg styledocco or clone this repository. StyleDocco is free software, released under the MIT license. Examples Stylesheet The following is the code you would write in your stylesheet, and the Output is what you would see in the documentation. /* Provides extra visual weight and identifies the primary action in a set of buttons. <button class="btn primary">Primary</button> */ .btn.primary { background: steelblue; color: snow; border: 2px outset steelblue; } Output Provides extra visual weight and identifies the primary action in a set of buttons. StyleDocco StyleDocco examples examples source code source code
75. RAPID PROTOTYPING
76. FOUNDATION Foundation Features Add-ons Case Studies Docs Training Getting Started Foundation The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Download Foundation 4 12.4k stargazers @foundationzurb Latest Update on Github JUL 12, 2013 Commit a06390f7b8d09447e04204151e970e8e72d8e90c » Clone Now
77. BOOTSTRAP Star Star 52,951 52,951 Fork Fork 17,430 17,430 Follow Follow @twbootstrap @twbootstrap 71.8K followers Tweet Tweet 18.3K Introducing Bootstrap. Bootstrap Bootstrap Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development. faster and easier web development. Download Bootstrap Download Bootstrap GitHub project GitHub project GitHub project Examples Examples Examples Extend Extend Extend Version 2.3.2 Version 2.3.2 Version 2.3.2 Bootstrap Bootstrap Bootstrap Home Home Get started Get started Scaffolding Scaffolding Base CSS Base CSS Components Components JavaScript JavaScript Customize Customize
78. RATCHET Star Star 5,076 5,076 Tweet Tweet 3,753 Follow Follow @GoRatchet @GoRatchet 1,884 followers Getting started Once you've downloaded Ratchet, here's what to do next. Prototype iPhone apps with simple HTML, CSS, and JS components. Download Ratchet Download Ratchet R A T C H E T Getting started Components Page setup View on Github
79. MIDDLEMAN + SASS
80. RAPID PROTOTYPING CODE REUSE
81. RAPID PROTOTYPING INHERIT DOCUMENTATION WITH CODE + COMMENTS
82. RAPID PROTOTYPING MORE EFFICIENT USE OF TIME
83. RAPID PROTOTYPING NATURAL FOCUS ON THE EBB & FLOW OF THE WEB & CONDUCIVE TO RESPONSIVE DESIGN
84. RAPID PROTOTYPING CROSS-DISCIPLINE COLLABORATION
85. CONCURRENT PROCESS DISCOVERY DESIGN DEVELOP • STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS • BUSINESS GOALS • USER RESEARCH • USER STORIES • PERSONAS • SKETCHES • STYLE TILES • ELEMENT COLLAGES • STYLE GUIDES • RAPID PROTOTYPE • BACKEND ITERATE & TEST DEPLOY
86. 4 GOALS OF RAPID PROTOTYPING
87. CREATION IS A SHARED ACTIVITY 1
88. GET TO THE END PRODUCT WITH AS LITTLE WASTE AS POSSIBLE 2
89. CREATE ONLY WHAT YOU NEED TO INFORM AND VALIDATE DESIGN DECISIONS 3
90. CREATE SYSTEMS NOT PAGES 4
91. TYPICAL PROCESS • CLIENTS • STAKEHOLDERS • WIREFRAMES • PHOTOSHOP COMPS • HTML • CSS • JAVASCRIPT • BACKEND DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY • STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS • BUSINESS GOALS • RISK ANALYSIS • COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS • PROJECT BRIEF • CONTENT • STATEMENT OF WORK • FUNCTIONAL SPECS QUESTIONS?