A Designer’s Guide to Prototyping Ajax

There’s nothing new about them. 37signals’s Getting Real movement is all about sitting down and getting in front of the interface. A prototype is just one of the ways a team can dive right in. For us, prototypes are basically wireframes come to life. A combination of CSS, XHTML and JavaScript, they help me, as an interface designer, communicate effectively the look and feel of a proposed page to a programmer, like Ryan, so he can integrate the interface into a project quickly and efficiently.