WEEK 22 Usability Testing and Prototyping

Flashcards covering key concepts from Usability Testing and Prototyping lecture notes.

Prototyping

A manifestation of a design that allows stakeholders to interact with it and explore its usability.

Usability Testing

Testing how easy a design is to use with a group of representative users.

Low-fidelity Prototype

Uses sketches and models to focus on the outward appearance and ‘feel’ of the designed system. It's simple, quick, and cheap to produce.

High-fidelity Prototype

Looks more like the final product and usually provides some functionality, though it may be expensive and time-consuming to fix issues.

Rapid Prototyping

Creates three-dimensional objects additively in a layer-by-layer manner, useful for evaluating features of a prototype.

Vertical Prototyping

Explores a limited number of features in depth, often linking to real data for proof-of-concept.

Horizontal Prototyping

Includes a UI of the entire system but is not fully functional, good for understanding relationships across a broad system.

Storyboard

A series of annotated images showing how someone might chronologically progress through a task.

Wizard of Oz Prototyping

A method where a human simulates the response of a system to test user reactions before development.

Interactive Prototypes

Prototypes that behave like final products, allowing for user interaction to test functionality.