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Zaki Warfel, in his research for Prototyping, found

that paper prototyping is the most widely used design

technique in the world. Bill Buxton, in his great book

Sketching User Experiences, brings up lots of great

real-life stories of the use of paper in design.

The great question is, when should we use paper

prototyping? I can come up with two particularly

useful situations:

• Always, as a quick and dirty ideation tool that

you use before using other, more complex, design

techniques;

• In small, not complicated, projects, as a primary

design technique, on one condition: you must have

a good relationship with your team who can work

on scrappy documentation and, in this particular

project, you must prefer speed over accuracy.

You can either engage in sketching, or use sticky notes

as we did. Try to be as quick as you can and don’t over-

design your paper prototypes. They don’t need to be

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