UX for the Web

Deciding what, when, and how to prototype

Moodboards and storyboards are mostly used in the concept stages of design, when the team is deciding what features to include in the design and roughly what they might look like. The next stage of design is when you begin working out exactly what the web pages will look like and how they will work. This is where prototypes come into the picture.

A prototype is an early, unfinished version of a product, built to test one or more aspects of that product.

For website design, anything from a rough sketch on paper to HTML and CSS code can serve as a prototype, depending on what you want to test and with whom. Although prototypes don't have to be inherently interactive, they are usually made to test interaction ...