Feedback with Protonotes with Axure
Often gathering feedback from a variety of client stakeholders can be a time consuming process. You send over wireframes or a prototype with an accompanying spreadsheet to help the client collate and de-dupe their feedback.
Then with any luck you get the spreadsheet back with nicely collated feedback that you then have to interpret. Inevitably there are some points which need further clarification and emails and calls follow.
What normally happens is your spreadsheet gets ignored and you’ll get some emails containing feedback with various people copied in and discussions begin… which gets very confusing and you’ll probably end up having a long call or meeting to sort it all out. All very time consuming indeed.
I’ve been trialling a way of allowing feedback to be put straight into a prototype. Protonotes is a simple system to put post-it notes onto html pages. No plug-ins or software needs to be installed. Some clever people have a found a way to integrate this easily with axure prototypes.
There’s a little app which inserts the appropriate protonotes code into the header of the prototype. You then get the protonotes feedback bar at the top of the prototype – you can also alter the settings of this.
I’ve only used it a couple of times so far, but it’s proved a much more engaging and effective way of gathering feedback.
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