Building an RIA through Collaborative Design and Prototyping : Preamble

We're in the midst of building an interesting Rich Internet Application for educational assessment using Flex. We've had a lot of success with our process thus far, so I thought it would be helpful to document it as a means of discussing it and maybe improving it for our next project.

One of the great aspects of this particular project is that we've done the design collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team, including technologists, instructional designers, and even a faculty member or two.

Here's a pic of our screen designs and the application state diagram:

I'll break this down into detail in upcoming posts.

Next up: Iterative design.