prototyping essentials workshop

Prototyping Essentials

Today’s Session:

by: Andrew Barrocas

This chapter exists to bring together designers from all backgrounds and domains within the realm of

Interaction Design.

@IxDA_Miami

The Miami local group of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is a member-supported organization dedicated to the

discipline of interaction design. Since it’s launch in 2003, IxDA has grown into a global network of more than 70,000 members and over 173 local groups,

focusing on interaction design issues for the practitioner, no matter their level of experience.

What is the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)?

@IxDA_Miami

Diego Baca Kiran Carpenter Mike VonderHaar Eddie Gomez

Kim Grinfeder Andrew Barrocas Joel Mena Marcelo Paiva

Miami Team

Hosting Events

We need volunteers to get involved with:

Speaking Organizing Promoting Sponsoring

Reach out to one of the local IxDA Miami team members to get involved

Thank you to our host:

About Our Speaker

Andrew is an Experience Designer working at SapientNitro. There, he uses his analytical, research background and front-end skills to design and architect leading-edge marketing and web solutions for clients. Andrew is also a core member of the office’s prototyping practice, and believes rapid prototyping is one of the best ways to quickly validate ideas and should be at the heart of any user-centered design process. Prior to joining Sapient, Andrew attended Clemson University, where he focused his Master's in Human-Computer Interaction and did his thesis on what it means to design responsively in an ever-connected landscape.

Andrew Barrocas

P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S9 / 1 5 / 1 6

building things realer, faster

P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 1


T H I S I S F O R

Interaction/UX Designers Information Architects Developers (FE, BE, FS) Project Managers Product Owners/Scrum Masters Business Analysts

Andrew BarrocasExperience Designer, SapientNitro

• HCI background • Avid reader • Prototype aficionado • Longtime contributor, first time speaker


If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings.Saying @ IDEO



F E E L S R E A L

tough to remain nimble


T R A D I T I O N A L W AT E R FA L L M E T H O D

R E Q U I R E M E N T S /A N A LY S I S

D E S I G N

C O D I N G

Q A / U AT

M A I N T E N A N C E / S U P P O R T


F E E L S R E A L



F E E L S R E A L


Q U I C K & D I R T Y

don’t capture the full experience


The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

Bill Buxton, Microsoft


FA K E I T B E F O R E Y O U B U I L D I T !

• Low Cost • Low Skill • Fast • Agile • Easy to Test


P R O T O T Y P I N G W O R K S H O P


T H E P R O B L E M


Grace Friedman• Lives in Winfield, IL • Recently retired • Enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, gardening, and cooking • Suffers from Type 2 Diabetes, and regularly requires Insulin therapy and other medications


Connie Friedman• Lives in Lake Forest, IL • Single mother of 2 • Works nightshifts as a nurse • Also acts as primary caregiver to her mother, and struggles getting her to consistently take her medications and her Insulin


T H E S O LV E

Use the remaining portion of the workshop to “engage the wizard” and prototype a solution to help alleviate the problem faced by people like Grace and Connie


N O T E S / C O N S T R A I N T S

• While your solution may contain a mobile component to it, don’t limit yourselves to just mobile

• Be creative • Don’t bind your thinking to any technical constraints/limitations • ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!

Q U E S T I O N S ?


Prototyping: A Practitioner’s GuideBy Todd Warfel (Rosenfeld Media)

Download at the link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0s91ssw58sury26/Prototyping-epub-

edition.epub?dl=0
