Today Elen, my manager, approached me and asked to make a prototype of a new functionality in our project management system. This is a reimbursement management module: employees spend some money (taxi from airport, for example), then they create requests for reimbursements and if they are lucky and management approves the requests, they get the money back :-)

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Tags: mockups, UI

Virtually in every project you have to do some UI mockups. I mean, if you have some methodology, you are a team and you are serious about your project.

In my past experience I have tried different ways of creating mockups:

1. hand-drawn pictures;
2. hand-drawn pictures, photographed with digital camera and inserted into requirement doc;
3. Visio documents (duh!);
4. some actual code.

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Tags: mockups, UI