s I moved into prototypes I wanted to keep iterating, mining the insights of the research and testing how they could form different patterns to inform (and re-inform) my designs. My idea for this project since the beginning was to keep a fresh perspective on how the App could take form.
With that in mind I designed about six different pencil and paper prototypes, each containing a simple three steps flow. My initial plan was to spend one hour prepping each prototype beforing "PoP"-ing it to show users, that being said, some took way less time. In total I probably spent four hours sketching these before hitting the road.
My flow testing tool of choice for such an early stage was PoP. Later I would move on to Invision for more elaborated flows. .
"I love to keep it simple during these early user testing sessions, the nature and messiness of paper estimulate users to sustain a co-participatory mental state while testing. The raw nature of the prototypes was perceived by users as a 'blank canvas' in which they could leave their mark on. These sessions more than made up for not having hosted traditional co-participatory ideation sessions.
