GrilloPress – Prototyping in shorthand

Prototyping in shorthand
As mentioned in my last discovery notes I like to write up pages in a shorthand method.

This isn’t something that only I do.

When I was helping out in services week for “formapalooza” Ralph Hawkins spoke about the format he used in Google docs to write pages.

The format follows the shapes of interface elements using:

Radio buttons (  )
Checkboxes [  ]
Input fields [                ]
Buttons [ Continue ]
I do this too. But I like to add a few markdown elements as well, so #‘s for headings. So:

# Heading one
## Heading two
### Heading three
This means I like to write pages like this:..

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