Using Microsoft Excel for Form Prototyping
ID Connections - Simplifying Forms In A Not So Simple World
- describes the approach taken in translating a very complicated paper-based form into something that was relatively simple to complete online:
“We started with a complex interface that required very simple technology (a pencil or a keyboard) to fill out and turned it into a very simple interface with a much more complex back end supporting it.”
- prototyping was done using Microsoft Excel; advantages to doing this were:
starting in Excel allowed us to make a workable prototype using tools we could handle ourselves. If we hired a programmer to make a web application, we still would have had to go through the same design process to develop the pieces of the product…
By focusing on a doable prototype, we were able to get tangible results quickly.
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