Paper Prototyping is a technique that consists of creating hand drawings of user interfaces in order to enable them to be rapidly designed, simulated and tested. As simple as this technique may look like, it has been effectively used since the 1980s and is likely to continue to be used with a guaranteed degree of success for many more years to come. The objective of this article is to define paper prototyping and explain how this technique can be used for usability testing. Justin Mifsud opted to write the article mostly in bullet form so that it can act as a quick reference.
Paper prototypes are used:
- To communicate ideas: between designers, developers, users and other stakeholders in the first stages of the user-centered design process.
- As a usability testing technique: to observe the human interaction with user interfaces even before these interfaces are designed and developed.
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