Comments on: Project 5 http://mehulhirani.com/work/project-5/ Mehul Hirani - User Experience Architect Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:43:24 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mehul http://mehulhirani.com/work/project-5/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Mehul Wed, 27 May 2009 16:48:59 +0000 http://mehulhirani.com/?p=399#comment-28 Hi, Cristian, thanks for your message. A colleague at work sent a link around to your website. Flairbuilder looks very interesting and I will definitely check it out over the next few days. Cheers, M Hi, Cristian, thanks for your message. A colleague at work sent a link around to your website. Flairbuilder looks very interesting and I will definitely check it out over the next few days.

Cheers,
M

]]> By: Cristian Pascu http://mehulhirani.com/work/project-5/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Cristian Pascu Wed, 27 May 2009 13:12:38 +0000 http://mehulhirani.com/?p=399#comment-27 Very, very interesting reading! Large projects are challenging. Banking projects are scary, at least from server side infrastructure point of view. Generally, large projects bring up the high risk of loosing track after developing few modules. Already built modules will risk to become stale as new requirements affect newly developed modules and design changes can not properly be implemented in existing modules. From UI perspective, this leads to design inconsintency, confusion, especially at the details level. Resources are limited, getting a large system implemented right demands an highly trained team and very, very good communication. Running, clickable prototypes are a must, either coded or tool-generated. Axure is a very popular solution for prototyping. However, I hope you won't mind if I point you to this tool called FlairBuilder, http://www.flairbuilder.com. It gives you the same capability of creating highly interactive prototypes, comprised of fully functional components like buttons, links, tabs, text and check boxes, etc. Although they have a plain wireframe look, the amount of interactivity you get allows you to do very complex usability testing. You can try right away online at http://www.flairbuilder.com/demo or even try the free trial on your desktop. I hope you'll find it useful! Cheers, Cristian Very, very interesting reading! Large projects are challenging. Banking projects are scary, at least from server side infrastructure point of view.

Generally, large projects bring up the high risk of loosing track after developing few modules. Already built modules will risk to become stale as new requirements affect newly developed modules and design changes can not properly be implemented in existing modules. From UI perspective, this leads to design inconsintency, confusion, especially at the details level. Resources are limited, getting a large system implemented right demands an highly trained team and very, very good communication. Running, clickable prototypes are a must, either coded or tool-generated.

Axure is a very popular solution for prototyping. However, I hope you won’t mind if I point you to this tool called FlairBuilder, http://www.flairbuilder.com. It gives you the same capability of creating highly interactive prototypes, comprised of fully functional components like buttons, links, tabs, text and check boxes, etc. Although they have a plain wireframe look, the amount of interactivity you get allows you to do very complex usability testing.

You can try right away online at http://www.flairbuilder.com/demo or even try the free trial on your desktop. I hope you’ll find it useful!

Cheers,
Cristian

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