Book description
Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? Do you hate those endless meetings where you argue how the interface should work? Have you ever developed something that later had to be completely redesigned? Paper Prototyping can help. Written by a usability engineer with a long and successful paper prototyping history, this book is a practical, how-to guide that will prepare you to create and test paper prototypes of all kinds of user interfaces. You'll see how to simulate various kinds of interface elements and interactions. You'll learn about the practical aspects of paper prototyping, such as deciding when the technique is appropriate, scheduling the activities, and handling the skepticism of others in your organization. Numerous case studies and images throughout the book show you real world examples of paper prototyping at work. Learn how to use this powerful technique to develop products that are more useful, intuitive, efficient, and pleasing: * Save time and money - solve key problems before implementation begins * Get user feedback early - use it to focus the development process * Communicate better - involve development team members from a variety of disciplines * Be more creative - experiment with many ideas before committing to one*Enables designers to solve design problems before implementation begins *Five case studies provide real world examples of paper prototyping at work *Delves into the specifics of what types of projects paper prototyping is and isn't good for.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
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Part I: Introduction to Paper Prototyping
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Chapter 1: Introduction
- What Is Paper Prototyping Anyway?
- What Paper Prototyping Isn’t
- Benefits of Paper Prototyping
- Paper Prototyping and Usability
- The History of Paper Prototyping
- Usefulness of Paper Prototyping
- Audience for This Book
- Usability for Everyone
- Author Background
- Terminology Used in This Book
- Chapter Overview
- No Bad Examples!
- Companion Web Site: www.paperprototyping.com
- Chapter 2: Case Studies
- Chapter 3: Thinking about Prototyping
- Chapter 4: Making a Paper Prototype
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Part II: Process: Conducting a Usability Study with a Paper Prototype
- Chapter 5: Planning a Usability Study with a Paper Prototype
- Chapter 6: Task Design
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Chapter 7: Preparing the prototype
- List the Pieces needed for the Tasks
- Don’t Forget the Data
- Divide and Conquer
- Parallel Design
- Existing versus New Design?
- Hand-Drawn versus Screen Shots?
- Tips for Hand-Drawn Phototypes
- Greeking and Simplification
- Using Screen Shots
- Separating Elements
- How Much to Prototype—Anticipating Paths and Errors
- Organizing the Prototype
- Design Reviews
- Internal Walkthroughs
- The Final Walkthrough—the Usability Test Rehearsal
- Pilot Tests
- Chapter 8: Introduction to Usability Test Facilitation
- Chapter 9: Usability Testing with a Paper Prototype
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Chapter 10: Observers
- Benefits of In-Room Observers
- Concerns about In-Room Observers
- Who Shouldn’t Be in the Room
- Weighing Risks and Rewards
- The Rules
- Stay for the Entire Test
- Remain Silent While the Users Are Working
- Working up to In-Room Observers
- Preparing the Users
- Observer-User Interactions: Questions to Avoid
- What Observers Should Do
- Chapter 11: Data: Capturing, Prioritizing, and Communicating
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Part III: Deciding Whether to Use Paper
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Chapter 12: What Paper is (and isn't) Good for
- Dimensions of a Prototype
- Which Dimensions Matter?
- What Paper Prototypes Will Likely Find (Depth Issues)
- What Paper Prototypes May Find (Look Issues)
- What Paper Prototypes Won’t Find (Interaction Issues)
- Finding Problems through Inspection
- What Usability Testing Won’t Find (Real-Life Situations)
- Summary
- Chapter 13: The Politics of Paper Prototyping
- Chapter 14: When to Use Paper
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Chapter 12: What Paper is (and isn't) Good for
- Part IV: Broadening the Focus
- References
- Index
- Figure Credits
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Paper Prototyping
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2003
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780080513508
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