Paper Prototyping: Make sure your product works before you build it.

Hands-on Paper Prototyping

What if you could design and test your website or application, before spending any time and money coding it? Imagine being able to know before you release your product, that it meets the needs of your customers, and is easy to use? How about showing your ideas off to stakeholders, and get valuable feedback that your can incorporate right away within minutes? Welcome the the world of Paper Prototyping...

The video below is a video recording of someone doing a usability test on the paper prototype. This can be done before any software code is written, and is a great way to test and iterate on your design.

Sketching and Evaluating Your Design Concepts

Join us as we teach you the essentials for creating low-fidelity paper prototypes to flesh out your design ideas and gather feedback from users early in the development process. Using common office supplies, development teams can build and test a working prototype of a product in a matter of hours. We will share prototyping techniques for simulating all kinds of user interface widgets.

In this hands-on session, you'll learn to create a fully working paper mock-up of any proposed design, which you can use to collect usability data through usability testing. You'll discover what aspects of your design work well, and what users have trouble with. Using paper mock-ups, you can make changes very quickly, even during a usability test! It may sound counter-intuitive, but it's usually faster to develop and change a paper mock-up than an electronic prototype.

The high point of this presentation is the interactive design exercise. Using everything you've learned, you'll build a fully working product within a couple of hours and test real users interacting with the design. Because it's a competition, you'll find yourself totally immersed, working at top speed.