Inconsistency

According to the website, Protonotes are

“notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality, design, and requirements directly on the prototype. You can think of it like a discussion board/wiki in direct context of your prototype.“

It is an extremely useful tool to have if you ever do HTML prototyping.  Having did that for a project and went to presentations of others who have, it seems that although everyone has a different method of annotating, it is still one of the most complicated part of the process.  I know someone here at Razorfish embedded it in their code with the help of a PLD.  My old project uses the combination of code and Wiki, which I think is more robust.

However, I think Protonotes makes this process a lot easier by allowing us to drag and drop it to wherever it is suppose to go.  It also makes collaboration a lot simpler, since even a novice can easily figure out where to place the note.

It even prints properly!  The sandbox from Protonotes website doesn’t print properly but try this one (found from Adaptive Path’s post).

I know this is probably an early prototype, but features that I would like to see in future iterations are:

• Ability to group notes by layer and show/hide layers - this is mostly for hiding expired notes but doesn’t want to remove them entirely
• Ability to choose color for notes - this is for when there are multiple reviewers or for developers to post questions on the interface
• Automatic time-stamp

But very cool so far!

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