Originally presented at Interaction 13 in Toronto, Jan 31, 2013 When it comes to communicating a concept, testing assumptions and gaining consensus, nothing beats a prototype. Yet many people believe prototyping is beyond their ability or too taxing to add to their process. It's time we stop using static representations to design interactive products. This talk will discuss why interaction designers should abandon printouts for interaction prototypes, how to introduce them into your process and showcase real world examples and success stories.

1. January 31, 2013
Bury the Wireframe: A Primer in Interaction Prototyping
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2. Bury the Wireframe:
A Primer in
Interaction
Prototyping.

3. This is not a talk about
prototyping tools.

6. Prototyping is a process.

7. Explore.
Communicate.
Validate.

8. Explore.
Communicate.
Validate.

9. Exploration is collaborative.

10. “Creative Intelligence is social.
We increase our creative ability
by learning from others,
collaborating, sharing.”
- Bruce Nussbaum
Creative Intelligence

11. Collaborate. If Kanye can, you can.

12. Wireframes are great tool for
information design, not
interaction design.

14. Explore.
Communicate.
Validate.

15. A click is worth a thousand
annotations.

16. Maybe...
I’ll just read the annotations.

18. Communication is being a
salesperson.

19. You are a sales person.
“Selling, I’ve grown to
understand, is more urgent,
more important, and, in its
own sweet way, more
beautiful than we realize.”
- Dan Pink

20. Explore.
Communicate.
Validate.

21. Invalidate at every step.

24. Validate in the wild.

26. More Considerations
• How savvy are clients, stakeholders?
• How innovative is your design?
• What are the core interactions in the experience?
• How foreign is the context?

27. Get prototyping:
Just do it.
Don’t be precious.
Tell a story.
Define your content first.
Use the buddy system.
Test. Break. Repeat.
Make something you love.

28. One more thing.

31. hello@derekvaz.com

32. hugeinc.com
info@hugeinc.com
45 Main St. #220 Brooklyn, NY 11201
+1 718 625 4843

33. Appendix.

34. Tools, Resources, Frameworks
• Prototypr http://bit.ly/Vx0vz0
• Kenotopia http://bit.ly/aLrB1A
• Window Resizer for Chrome http://bit.ly/Qylb49
• Zurb Foundation http://foundation.zurb.com/
• Code Academy http://bit.ly/udgloC
• CSS Hat http://bit.ly/I6Or3m

35. Books
• Prototyping: A Practitioners Guide http://bit.ly/9Fa3f
• Sketching User Experiences http://amzn.to/aI8EEU
• Lean UX http://amzn.to/Xu8JY9