From the course: UX Design: 6 Paper Prototyping
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From the course: UX Design: 6 Paper Prototyping
Materials to use
- [Instructor] When I talk about making interface elements, I really do mean make. You start with an oversized screen template for whatever device type your users will be working with and then you cut out pieces of paper to form the on screen controls. As with almost every stage of the user-center design process to date, my favorite type of paper to use here is sticky notes with occasional index cards as well. I tend to design for mobile devices first since it's easier to scale these up rather than trying to scale down from a website or a PC application. Whatever screen you decide to design for, make a screen template that's at least four times the surface area of the actual device. So for a mobile application, that might mean using letter or a four sized paper. For a PC screen, it might mean using tabloid or A3 sized paper. The reason for this is that you'll be hand creating each of the interface components, controls, text areas, buttons and so on, that appear on the screen. In order…
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