Rapid prototyping/story-boarding with high level tools

[Robinlovelace]

Just been looking at https://github.com/rstudio/flexdashboard and it makes think about rapid prototyping. There is a spectrum of detail, including:

• Sketching on Google Presentations/Excalidraw etc
• Front end design tools like Figma and storybook (which looks amazing btw)
• Rapid prototyping tools that require minimal code and time to get things started like flexdashboard (are there any others worth a shot?)
• Deployment in production, perhaps using one of the frameworks in acteng/atip#20

There can be overlap between them but my current thinking is that it's worth having an intermediate stage between purely conceptual designs and production ready designs. Will document any storyboarding/design ideating here for reference and any pointers on that before I do (no imminent plans) welcome.

[Robinlovelace]

Example with a map: https://walkerke.shinyapps.io/neighborhood_diversity/

Note it's a bit laggy and not necessarily scalable or good at ingesting data, but good for a step after sketching and getting data and UI components visualised to tell a story quick.

[Robinlovelace]

Rapid prototyping system: https://json-editor.github.io/json-editor/