SIGIA-L Mail Archives: SIGIA-L: Paper Prototyping - was: usabil
SIGIA-L: Paper Prototyping - was: usability testing on sitemaps
From: Jess McMullin (jess_at_cognissa.com)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 19:47:02 EDT
Anne writes about testing final product vs mockups.
[Christina and Whitney write and say what usability testing actually is, and
other goodness]
Test early, test often, do that whole cool iterated design thing instead of
waiting to test the "final product". If you delay testing until you have
colors and buttons that click you'll have hurt your chances to get any
changes in by launch date....be prepared for an onslaught of "good idea. no
money. no time. next version."
Here's a bevy of paper prototyping links for your viewing pleasure:
UIE articles
- http://world.std.com/~uieweb/prototyp.htm (paper, still our favorite)
- http://world.std.com/~uieweb/paperproto.htm (5 paper prototyping tips)
- http://world.std.com/~uieweb/paper.htm (using paper prototypes to manage
risk)
Prototyping for tiny fingers
-Marc Rettig's granddaddy paper. Still most cited paper prototyping
reference I know.
- http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/1994-37-4/p21-rettig/
(reference)
- http://www.enteract.com/~marc/writings.htm (Marc's stuff, scroll down for
more)
Jakob on prototypes
- <http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2190669,00.html>
- http://www.useit.com/papers/sun/papertest.html
OCLC (home of Gary Perlman)
- http://www.oclc.org/usability/prototyping/oclc.htm
HFRG in Cork
- http://www.ucc.ie/hfrg/projects/respect/urmethods/paperproto.htm (good
overview/intro)
Infodesign sells a paper prototyping kit
- http://www.infodesign.com.au/prototyping/default.html
(though more to inspire you to raid your office supply cupboard)
Here's a paper prototyping "shopping list" and some notes from Saul
Greenberg (who actually lives close to me...wow)
- http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/581/prototyping.html
The entry from the incredibly cool INUSE handbook
- http://www.ejeisa.com/nectar/inuse/6.2/3-3.htm
Some crazy kids do paper prototyping of 3d objects (any ID folks around?)
- http://www.upassoc.org/html/paper_prototypes.html
Carolyn Snyder has some paper prototyping FAQs
- http://www.snyderconsulting.net/paperprototyping.htm
also for the general idea behind test early, test often, test lo-fi
http://www.useit.com/papers/guerrilla_hci.html (Jakob's Guerrilla HCI
article that is a founding document for discount usability)
and
http://www.chi-sa.org.za/Documents/articles/perils.htm (alan cooper on
dangers of prototyping with code)
watch that ugly url wrapping...
cheers,
Jess
(who is a post-it note junkie now, thanks to paper prototyping)
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