| Prototyping Concepts |
| Describe the relationship between wireframes, prototypes, and requirements documents. |
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| Describe the value of creating a prototype in addition to creating a requirements document and/or a wireframe. |
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| List and describe the five types of prototypes. |
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| List and describe the eight guiding principles for prototyping. |
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| List and describe the ways in which prototypes often save a business time and money, and can result in a better product. |
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| Describe the similarities between industrial design prototyping process and web application design prototyping. |
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| Describe the Ockham’s Razor design principle and how it might guide the prototyping design process. |
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| Describe the value of prototype critiques. |
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| Conduct a critique of a peer’s work. |
- Assignment: Review of Peer’s Prototype
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| Identify how the fidelity of a prototype might impact its effectiveness and insights it might generate. |
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- Assignment: Paper Prototype, Assignment: Fireworks Prototype, Assignment: HTML Prototype
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| Describe the value of being technology-agnostic when prototyping immature concepts and technology-specific for more mature concepts. |
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| Prototyping Methods |
Create a series of prototypes of varied fidelity using a variety of methods. |
- Assignment: Paper Prototype, Assignment: Fireworks Prototype, Assignment: HTML Prototype
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| Describe the benefit of shorter, rapid, iterative cycles with prototyping over longer more detailed cycles. |
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| Create a series of prototypes sketches on sketchboards. |
- Assignment: Paper Prototype
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| List and describe the advantages and disadvantages of sketching on paper, on whiteboards, and in code. |
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| List the tools you might use to create a prototype. |
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| Testing Prototypes |
List and describe common mistakes made when testing prototypes. |
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| Identify target demographics for a usability test. |
- Assignment: Prototype Usability Test
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| List best practices for conducting a usability test. |
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| List and describe the goals and intent of a usability study. |
- Assignment: Prototype Usability Test
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| Prepare a usability test screener, and a test plan. |
- Assignment: Prototype Usability Test
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| Conduct a usability test of a prototype, and prepare an analysis of the data gathered. |
- Assignment: Prototype Usability Test
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