Techspeak: User Interfake
Here is another one of the techspeak gems around our development team which I heared first time in the 90's. If you hack together a User Interface as a Proof-of-Concepts without any functionality to get a go for your project this is called a "User-Interfake". The user is tricked into believing he or she sees an almost finshed product. It seduces one to allow the continue the development if the end looks so near. but it's a fake, therefor User-Interfake. Other words are Mockup or Click-Dummy. At that times we used visual user interface editors. Nowadays it's very common assemble some HTML pages. Or even worse, some Photoshop or Powerpoint Slides are created which look like web pages. Should I call this Double-User-Interfake?
