Faster than wireframes
September 17, 2008 on 3:54 pm | In Interaction Design, Usability |Today at work I spent six hours in a room with a product manager reworking the flow and interface design of a product demo. This may seem like a long time to be in a room, but we were paper prototyping, an activity that is commonly used in user-centered-design because of it’s fast and cheap nature.
A key benefit that I derived directly from this activity was the ability to quickly and directly update the designs, iterating on the input provided by the sales and dev teams during many lightning feedback sessions. This process saves so much time as it facilitates faster group-consensus-building around a design and provides a low-tech medium to elicit a range of opinions from the stakeholders.
Developers tend to overlook the fact that the final artifact that you hand them looks like a stack of hard-to-read scrawl written by a seven-year-old, when you explain what the point of it all is. In an agile environment paper prototyping can really unclog bottlenecks, encourage communication and promote rapid iterations.
But don’t take my word for it – use the following links to prove that your not crazy next time you start paper prototyping at the office!
http://alistapart.com/articles/paperprototyping
http://www.paperprototyping.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_prototyping
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