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Nielsen Norman Group Tutorial

Rapid Prototyping and Usability Testing of User Interfaces

  Full-day tutorial.
Price: $9,000 (plus travel expenses)

Objective

Learn how to collect data from user testing of a proposed design before you have written a single line of code or generated a full set of content.

Low-fidelity prototyping is one of the best and most cost-effective methods of gaining design insight and direction early in the design process. This method allows you to identify major navigation and usability problems before your company spends enormous amounts of time and money developing and coding user interfaces. Participants will learn the value, cost benefits, and time savings of paper prototypes, how to introduce paper prototypes into the design cycle, how to create low-fidelity paper prototypes and mock-ups, how to plan and run usability studies with paper prototypes, and how paper prototypes foster teamwork across multidisciplinary teams.

This technique is especially suited for early testing of alternative homepage designs, but any screen-based user interface can benefit from low-fidelity prototyping, including complete websites and intranets.


Course Agenda

Full-day event with a combination of lectures and exercises, including creating and testing your own paper prototypes. Discussion and Q&A are encouraged. Paper prototyping materials will be provided.

Outline:

  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Planning paper prototype studies
  • Creating paper prototypes
  • Conducting the study
  • Modifying designs
  • Variation to basic methods
  • Introducing paper prototypes into the design cycle

Who Should Attend

This tutorial is intended for web and software developers, designers, project managers, and professionals who want to learn a quick and inexpensive method of designing and testing user interfaces. Participants should already have basic usability testing skills. Experienced professionals wishing to brush up on paper prototyping skills are encouraged to attend. 

How to Order

Please contact Nielsen Norman Group at info@nngroup.com if you are interested in more information or would like to request this workshop. Note that availability of our senior staff is highly variable: usually we need at least one month's notice. If you need the workshop on a specific date or if international travel is involved, three months' notice would be preferable.

The listed price is for courses within the United States. Courses in other countries have a higher cost.

                        
  

See also Related Film
Paper Prototyping: A How-To Video
32 minute DVD. How to get cheap and early test data about your design ideas.
 

See also How to Order
Please contact Nielsen Norman Group at info@nngroup.com if you are interested in more information or would like to request this workshop.

Note that availability of our senior staff is highly variable: usually we need at least one month's notice. If you need the workshop on a specific date or if international travel is involved, three months' notice would be preferable.


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