Paper Prototyping

Concentrate on paper work before the actual work! This funda applies to design of interfaces as well and is called Paper Prototyping. Paper prototyping is a cheap and fast technique for rapid iterative design of user interfaces. Here a few examples:

Paper prototype of typical forms-filling screen.



Paper prototype of a tabs-based design.

Testing hardware user interfaces: mockup of a kiosk.

[via Nielsen Norman Group]

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