“If Ernest Hemingway, James Mitchener, Neil Simon, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Pablo Picasso could not get it right the first time, what makes you think that you will?”
— Paul Heckel
A physical model of a particular design
A method of communication
A means of low-risk design exploration
A learning process!
Before you choose a prototyping method, consider what you are trying to achieve by prototyping?
“Emma, a sales manager, needs to arrange a meeting with her 5-member sales team (Becker, Kim, Taylor, Olsen and Singh) to work out the details of an upcoming promotion for their newest product ReadBetter. Using the meeting room booking system from her office computer she determines when they can all meet this week and reserves a room with a projector for the meeting.”
How do Design Scenarios compare to User Stories?
“Emma, a sales manager, needs to arrange a meeting with her 5-member sales team (Becker, Kim, Taylor, Olsen and Singh) to work out the details of an upcoming promotion for their newest product ReadBetter. Using the meeting room booking system from her office computer she determines when they can all meet this week and reserves a room with a projector for the meeting.”
“Emma, a sales manager, needs to arrange a meeting with her 5-member sales team (Becker, Kim, Taylor, Olsen and Singh) to work out the details of an upcoming promotion for their newest product ReadBetter. Using the meeting room booking system from her office computer she determines when they can all meet this week and reserves a room with a projector for the meeting.”
“Emma, a sales manager, needs to arrange a meeting with her 5-member sales team (Becker, Kim, Taylor, Olsen and Singh) to work out the details of an upcoming promotion for their newest product ReadBetter. Using the meeting room booking system from her office computer she determines when they can all meet this week and reserves a room with a projector for the meeting.”
“Emma, a sales manager, needs to arrange a meeting with her 5-member sales team (Becker, Kim, Taylor, Olsen and Singh) to work out the details of an upcoming promotion for their newest product ReadBetter. Using the meeting room booking system from her office computer she determines when they can all meet this week and reserves a room with a projector for the meeting.”
“Emma, a sales manager, needs to arrange a meeting with her 5-member sales team (Becker, Kim, Taylor, Olsen and Singh) to work out the details of an upcoming promotion for their newest product ReadBetter. Using the meeting room booking system from her office computer she determines when they can all meet this week and reserves a room with a projector for the meeting.”
“Emma, a sales manager, needs to arrange a meeting with her 5-member sales team (Becker, Kim, Taylor, Olsen and Singh) to work out the details of an upcoming promotion for their newest product ReadBetter. Using the meeting room booking system from her smartphone she determines when they can all meet this week and reserves a room with a projector for the meeting.”
Start with a brief goal-oriented scenario including trigger (motivation) or alternatively create a process flow diagram
Evaluate with real users whenever possible, to check for omissions, corrections, etc.
Once design scenarios have been created, review them to start identifying potential features of the system
✓ Describe what, not how
✓ Be very specific
✓ Describe reaching a user goal (or solving a problem)
✓ Include underlying motivation
✓ Describe who the user(s) are
✓ Include the context of use
PROJECT GROUP
Write a scenario for a person using your chosen open source/SFU community project
❑ Describe what, not how
❑ Be very specific
❑ Describe reaching a user goal (or solving a problem)
❑ Include underlying motivation
❑ Describe who the user(s) are
❑ Include the context of use
“Emma, a sales manager, needs to arrange a meeting with her 5-member sales team (Becker, Kim, Taylor, Olsen and Singh) to work out the details of an upcoming promotion for their newest product ReadBetter. Using the meeting room booking system from her office computer she determines when they can all meet this week and reserves a room with a projector for the meeting.”
Use sketches to quickly explore a range of divergent designs for key screens or concepts
With the quick and disposable nature of sketches, they are also an effective tool to help identify requirements with users (and existing assumptions)
PROJECT GROUP
You can share the storyboards with potential users before conducting usability tests and ask questions such as what they like/dislike (with follow-up questions), is anything missing, and could you see yourself in the story shown?
PROJECT GROUP
Create several panels of a storyboard based on your previously written scenario
https://revisionlab.wordpress.com/that-squiggle-of-the-design-process/
https://medium.com/fold-line-gold/four-common-types-of-software-prototypes-8fa275c0602f
https://www.umsl.edu/~sauterv/analysis/Fall2013Papers/Boutaugh/elementspage.html
https://www.leemunroe.com/designing-with-pen-paper/
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/06/sketching-for-better-mobile-experiences/
http://ferhatsen.com/design-fest.html
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff800706.aspx
http://sneakpeekit.com/
https://blog.rangle.io/master-ui-wireframes-with-only-three-shapes/
http://uxmovement.com/wireframes/why-its-important-to-sketch-before-you-wireframe/
http://johnnyholland.org/2011/10/storyboarding-ux-part-2-creating-your-own/
https://noelbyrne.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/balsamiq-mockups/