Design and Prototyping for Drupal

Walking Through the Prototype

It’s hard to demonstrate in words exactly how to walk through the prototype with a potential user. In the interview with David Rondeau of InContext Design (see From the Trenches: David Rondeau, inContext Design), he walks through the process that his team uses for working with paper prototypes; however, the following videos can also give you a good visual demonstration of a variety of paper prototype techniques:

• Animating Paper Prototypes: blog post plus video from UK designer Chris Neale: http://e102.co.uk/?p=3

• Example Usability Test, from Blue Duck Labs: http://youtu.be/9wQkLthhHKA

• Low-Fi Web Prototype II, by Werner Puchert: http://youtu.be/y4Wwnt9KIjg

• A few examples from Drupal UX designer Roy Scholten:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/royscholten#p/u/1/7VOkLzD3yDs

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/royscholten#p/u/10/Yn0ZgKf74xM

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/royscholten#p/u/9/Z0UZkkvDTCM

From the Trenches: David Rondeau, inContext Design

David Rondeau is the Design Chair at InContext Design, a user experience design firm based in Concord, MA (http://www.incontextdesign.com). InContext created the Contextual Design process, which is taught at universities all over the world. Paper prototypes are a significant part of the Contextual Design process, meaning that David and his colleagues use them as part of every project.

Dani: What is it that you love so much about paper prototypes? Why do they work so well for you?

David: Paper prototypes are critical for allowing you to ...