Designed for Use, 2nd Edition

Guerilla Paper Prototype Testing

At this point in the process, you have static representations of your product. Whether it’s simple, crude sketches, wireframes, or detailed mock-ups, your product exists in the form of a series of pictures.

At its most basic, paper prototype testing simply means you get a real person to “interact” with those pictures in order to gauge whether your planned user interface is understandable to your users. This could be as simple as showing somebody a drawing of a user interface and asking them something like “If you wanted to change the font size of the text document on this screen, where would you click?”

You need a reasonably detailed sketch, wireframe, or mock-up of one of your product’s screens to do paper prototype ...