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Paper Prototyping: A How-To Training Video

  This 40 minute video is available in both Blu-ray (HD video quality) and traditional DVD (the old "standard definition" quality), at the same price:

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Summary

Paper prototyping is a technique that allows you to create and test user interfaces quickly and cheaply. It's easier to change a prototype than the final design.

This training video demonstrates how to build paper prototypes and get usability feedback from real users early. See how you can run your own studies.

The demonstrations cover websites, applications, mobile devices, and hardware user interfaces.


Contents

40 minute video: available in both Blu-ray and DVD formats. (Same movie on both disk formats, but of course it looks better in Blu-ray.)
  • Introduction: What is paper prototyping and why you should use it
  • Materials: What paper prototypes look like and how they're created
  • How to represent widgets and interactions. Get tips on:
    • sketching screens
    • representing user interface widgets
    • simulating complex interactions such as drag & drop, scrolling, and multimedia
  • Testing websites with low fidelity prototypes (hand sketches)
  • Testing websites with higher fidelity prototypes (computer-created prototypes)
  • Testing mobile devices
  • Testing hardware and kiosks

Sample Scene from the Video

 

User testing a paper prototype of a homepage

This is a reduced still from the video. The Blu-ray version is full HD video quality (1920x1080p) and the DVD version is traditional TV quality in "standard definition."

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Who Should Buy This Video?

  • Anyone interested in a fast and cheap technique to get user feedback early in a design project.
  • People who want to convince skeptical members of their team who do not believe that it is possible to test unpolished designs. Showing beats telling.
  • Universities and organizations that teach courses in usability and human–computer interaction (HCI).
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