Summary

Paper prototyping is a cheap and fast technique for rapid iterative design of user interfaces.

This training video demonstrates how to design and build paper prototypes of user interfaces in order to get early usability data from testing with real users.

The demonstrated techniques cover websites, intranets, software, devices, and hardware user interfaces.

Contents

• What is paper prototyping and why should you use it in a design project
• What paper prototypes look like and how they're created: recommended supplies and how to use them
• How to represent screens, user interface widgets, content, and form-filling using paper prototypes
• How to handle complex user interactions such as: drag & drop, highlighting, scrolling, searching, and multimedia
• Facilitation tips such as how to deal with unexpected user actions
• User testing a low-fidelity prototype of a website (intranets would use the same technique)
• User testing search on an intranet (websites would use the same technique to test their search)
• User testing a high-fidelity prototype of a website (intranets would use the same technique)
• User testing a paper prototype of a device-based user interface (using a mobile phone as the example)
• User testing a paper mock-up of hardware (using an airport parking ticket terminal as the example)

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Who Should Buy This Video?

• Anyone interested in collecting user data very early in a design project, using an extremely fast and cheap prototyping technique.
• People who want to convince skeptical members of their team who do not believe that it is possible to test something that's this simple to create. Showing beats telling.
• Universities that teach courses in usability and human-computer interaction (HCI).

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