Thread: Usability Testing for "Maemo Organizer"
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2008-11-29 , 02:30
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Originally Posted by Thesandlord View Post
...It looks nice, but the question is this... will it work? Remember, the first and most important thing is to make something work, not the graphics.
Not necessarily... A lot of people (and companies) do Flash-based (even static graphics-based) prototypes before trying to make anything that actually works -- it's a big part of usability and UX testing. The Maemo Software team even does this. Don't knock trying to create a usable interface before doing any hardcore programming... A lot of current apps could benefit a lot from this.

Whether this be thread spam or not, developers should be aware of the important practice of prototyping.

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