The usefulness of prototyping is well established. Prototypes better communicate the experience of products and services
than static documentation. This recognition has brought out many tools that make prototyping faster and easier. But just recognizing
that you need to prototype in your design process is not enough. Prototypes can serve many different purposes as well as communicate
to different audiences, such as stakeholders, users, and developers. We're moving beyond simply evangelizing prototyping and
now understanding different prototypes for context specific circumstances.
In this session we will tackle prototyping specifically to test and validate design ideas and concepts with users. These
prototypes aren't for stakeholders nor developers, but end users. These prototypes aren't for usability testing, they are
for testing conceptual frameworks and applications patterns. After you've done your research, synthesized and made meaning
of all your data, sketched your ideas, you'll want to test these concepts with real users.
We'll learn what considerations need to be made when prototyping for testing concepts with users, and take a practical
look at one of the tools used for this testing, Apple's Keynote. I'm tool agnostic, and recognize that different methods and
applications are appropriate for different prototyping scenarios, but Keynote is cheap, flexible, allows for a wide range
of fidelity, and has a low learning curve, making it perfect for our 90 minutes together.
Price: 70 EUR
Recording duration: 88 min
File size: 188 MB
Format: MP4
The link to download the presentation is sent with the payment confirmation email.
Chris Risdon
Chris is an Experience Designer at Adaptive Path. His journeyman path has helped shape his belief that compelling experiences
with digital services is a result of understanding how best to communicate with the people that use them.
Before joining Adaptive Path, Chris was Senior User Experience Architect at user experience consultancy Macquarium, helping
to improve the online product experience for clients such as Lowes.com and Intercontinental Hotels Group. Prior to that, Chris
was Lead User Experience Designer for video syndication start-up, News Distribution Network, designing their consumer facing
web applications. Chris was also formerly Senior Information Architect at CNN.com and previously worked for or with companies
such as Corbis, Microsoft, Nokia, General Motors, and AT&T Wireless. His 15 years of experience has been focused around
information architecture, interaction design and visual and communication design.
Chris holds an MFA in design from the Savannah College of Art & Design. He has taught design at NYU's school for continuing
education and is currently an assistant adjunct professor, teaching interface design, at Austin Community College in Austin,
Texas.
