Prototyping

Do you remember why the spiral development lifecycle was created? Exactly: because of the prototyping. At the beginning the idea was to prototype a little bit, develop a little bit, and this thing goes on...

Well I am not here to talk about the spiral development lifecycle, I am here to talk about prototyping.

There is a lot of ways to prototype a application, most of them are related to develop a preview of the software. But let's say that we want something more simple, and fast; basically a draw of the screen.

In that case most of us end up letting your Picasso goes out and get into some software like Gimp, Photoshop or even the PowerPoint. It is possible to draw a screen with them, sure it is, but we can use something born to it!

Here I would like to show you a Firefox 3 plug-in, free, light and enough for most of the tasks. But before saying the name, I would like to let a word: Scketching. If you need to search for this kind of screen draw it is the word.

Well let's go to the plug-in: Pencil Scketching. Download, take a look and enjoy!