From the course: UX Design: 6 Paper Prototyping

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Building a prototype

Building a prototype

- [Instructor] Creating a paper prototype is a very methodical process if you've previously made good scenarios or storyboards. Your scenarios or storyboards describe every aspect of the interaction between users and the system. So all you have to do is work through the scenarios, scene by scene, building interface elements for each part of the story as you go along. For instance, your scenario might describe how one of your personas goes about buying a ticket for a concert. The scenario will describe in general terms, what prompts them to get the ticket, how they go about doing it, and what the outcome is. Now, in conjunction with the designs you created during your ideation process, you make interface elements that allow that persona to perform those tasks. Because good interfaces should follow a user's mental models of the task and because you wrote the scenarios to make sense to users, it's likely that the interface elements you create will end up being laid out on the screen in…

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