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Creating paper prototypes

Creating paper prototypes

- [Instructor] The less cost you sink into a prototype, the less concern you'll have about throwing it out and starting again if you got things wrong. A paper prototype is quick to create, easy to modify, and still lets you test the interface concepts that you care most about. This course will show you how to produce really low cost prototypes using nothing more than office supplies. You can run usability tests using just your paper prototype. This lets you verify your design by checking that the task flows properly and the participants understand your design concepts. Because the paper prototype doesn't look like a finished product, session participants tend to give more honest and useful feedback. They're also happy if you make changes to the prototype on the fly to incorporate their suggestions. You'll get better, more honest, and more actionable feedback from a thrown together paper prototype than you would from creating a mock up on a real device. A paper prototype allows you to…

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