{"id":13628,"date":"2017-03-25T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imprint.li\/ritsandcompany\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2018-01-22T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:10:10","slug":"paper-prototypes-and-guerrilla-testing-quickly-identifies-usability-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ritsandcompany.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/25\/paper-prototypes-and-guerrilla-testing-quickly-identifies-usability-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Prototypes and Guerrilla Testing <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Quickly Identify Usability Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>When it comes to usability testing, I&#8217;m fast and agile! I know how to sketch out whiteboard wireframes for brainstorming sessions and quick solutions. Then create lo-fi clickthrough prototypes, or the ever popular (fast &amp; cheap) paper prototype to test usability and validate or invalidate assumptions. speed.<\/p>\n<h2>Guerrilla validating<\/h2>\n<p>No need to spend a week or two setting up usability tests. I&#8217;m just as happy to grab passersby in the hall, friends and associates online, or non-involved coworkers to run quick usability tests with.<\/p>\n<h2>Paper prototyping<\/h2>\n<p>Paper prototypes take less time, cost less and are quickly changed and adapted as the datapoints accumulate. I&#8217;ve been known to lay out an entire user flow in paper and pull in people off the street to test my UIs.<\/p>\n<h2>We do love our Post It notes<\/h2>\n<p>Nothing works quite as well to organize the architecture of a site than Post It notes on a wall. 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