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Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines / Part 1 - Fundamentals
Chapter 3 - Human Interface Design and the Development Process / Involving Users in the Design Process


Build Prototypes

For the third step, apply the information you've collected about your users, their skills, and the tasks you envision them performing to create a prototype of your design. Prototyping is the process by which you develop preliminary versions of your design to verify its workability. You can use a variety of techniques to construct prototypes of your design. Creating storyboards is one technique--you draw out the steps your users will go through to accomplish a task using your product. Another technique is to build a simulation of the product in prototyping software that animates some features or demonstrates how the product will work.


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29 JUL 1996



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