Paper Prototypes

Assignment 7

Executive Overview

This week, we completed a number of tasks:

Brainstormed four potential modalities for our solution
Storyboarded our top two ideas
Compared pros and cons to refine down to a single top ideas
Created task flow storyboards for our three core tasks in this modality
Created paper prototypes to mirror these flows
Conducted two paper prototype interviews to gain feedback

After much discussion, the modality we settled on was a native tablet app, for devices such as the iPad. This allows us to take advantage of intuitive, handwritten interfaces. Our paper prototype interviews provided valuable feedback about simplifying the interface for our existing features, as well as some less common but still very desirable features that we should incorporate.

Tablet with Pen Input Modality

Desktop Application with Mouse and Keyboard Modality

Web Application with Flexible Modality

Virtual Reality with Drawing Modality

Tablet with Pen Input Modality

Pros

Feasible and easy to grasp
Intuitive to understand and similar to existing methods, so low learning curve
Delivers on the promise of writing in the users own handwriting
Drawing makes the process faster

Cons

Tablets are less common than Desktop/Web
To be maximally effective, need extra equipment (a pen)
Due to handwriting inconsistencies, playback feature may be less accurate

Web Application with Flexible Modality

Pros

Flexible for multiple device and input modalities
More widely accessible
Cloud-based nature of web-applications means work is accessible from multiple devices

Cons

Due to nature of the flexibility, the software is less specialized and therefore less efficient
Steeper learning curve, and frequently less efficient, than drawing
Multiple devices means potential conflicts when worked on in multiple settings