Product design for Non Designers - Montreal Digital Nomad Meetup
White-boarding & Paper Prototyping
1. “
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life
depended on the answer, I would spend the
first 55 minutes figuring out the proper
questions to ask.
For if I knew the proper questions, I could
solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.
- Albert Einstein
“
3. Agenda
▧ Why it’s Important?
▧ Whiteboarding
What is Whiteboarding?
Significance of Whiteboarding?
How we do it?
The Framework
- Quadrants
- Experience
Samples
Hands-on activity
4. Agenda ...cont
▧ Paper Prototyping
What are paper prototypes?
When is it required?
Significance of paper prototyping : Quick, Cost effective, Expressive
How we do it?
Whiteboarding vs Prototyping
Samples
Myths of Paper Prototyping
Popular Prototyping tools
Hands-on Activity
▧Recommended Readings
▧References
8. What is Whiteboarding?
It’s a technique where an idea is presented to a
group of people willing to criticize, encourage,
or add to that idea.
Better VisualizationThinking Aloud Quick Collaboration
12. Draw four quadrants on the
whiteboard first
▧ User Needs
▧ Assumptions
▧ User Goals
▧ Constraints
The Quadrants
User-Needs Assumptions
User-Goals Constraints
13. The Quadrant
User-Needs Assumptions
User-Goals Constraints
● Age at parents buys Toys for their kids
● Need Easy buying options
● Should be trustworthy
● I want to customize the Toy color
● Comparison is required
● If I don’t like the product, easy
replacement
● Age Group is 5-10 Years
● We don’t have mobile expertise on
board
14. Now that you have majority of
the research done about our
user
▧ Draw interaction design
flow
▧ Visualize the whole
journey as a user
Task Flow
40. What is Paper Prototyping?
A technique that allows to create and test user
interfaces rapidly. It's an easier way to create
realistic prototypes just by paper.
It’s in practice since 1980.
Usability TestingCommunicate Idea
41. When is it required?
Brainstorming Outline workflows
Explore/validate
layouts
Show basic app
structure
42. Significance of Paper Prototyping
▧ Quick Hypothesis Validation
▧ Fast & Cost Effective
▧ Honest & Unbiased Feedback
▧ Encourages Creativity
▧ Team Building
▧ No Design & Coding Skills Required
▧ Helps in Documentation
43. How we do it?
1. What is required here?
2. Printer paper + Pencil
3. Prototype mobile-first
4. One sketch per screen
5. Iterate & Refine as Idea evolves
44. Whiteboarding vs Paper Prototyping
Whiteboarding Paper Prototyping
Focus on usability perspective Help understand interactions
and flows
Effective and Fast Collaboration Actualization of product
Team Brainstorming User Engagement
Create Product Outline Honest User Feedback
78. Recommended Readings
▧ The Back of the Napkin : Solving
Problems and Selling Ideas with
Pictures - by Dan Roam
▧ Whiteboard Selling: Empowering
Sales Through Visuals - by Corey
Sommers & David Jenkins
80. References
▧ Paper Prototyping - by Dr. David Travis
▧ Nielsen Norman Group
▧ Sketching Matters - by Paul Goode and Mark Kraemer
▧ Everything you need to know about Sketching - by Nick Vyhouski
▧ 7 Myths about paper prototyping - by David Travis