These are the slides from a workshop I gave for the local chapter of the IXDA.

1. Prototyping Essentials
Today’s Session:
by: Andrew Barrocas

2. 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).

3. 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

4. Diego Baca Kiran Carpenter Mike VonderHaar Eddie Gomez
Kim Grinfeder Andrew Barrocas Joel Mena Marcelo Paiva
Miami Team

5. 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

6. Thank you to our host:

7. 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

8. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S
9 / 1 5 / 1 6
building things realer, faster
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9. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
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

10. Andrew Barrocas
Experience Designer, SapientNitro
• HCI background
• Avid reader
• Prototype aficionado
• Longtime contributor, first time speaker
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11. If a picture is worth 1000 words, a
prototype is worth 1000 meetings.
Saying @ IDEO
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17. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
F E E L S R E A L
tough to remain nimble

18. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
T R A D I T I O N A L WAT 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 RT

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21. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
F E E L S R E A L
tough to remain nimble

22. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
F E E L S R E A L
tough to remain nimble
Q U I C K & D I RT Y
don’t capture the full experience

23. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
The only way to engineer the future
tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.
Bill Buxton, Microsoft

24. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
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

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

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T H E P R O B L E M

32. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
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

33. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
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

34. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
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

35. P R O T O T Y P I N G E S S E N T I A L S 6
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!

36. Q U E S T I O N S ?
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37. Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide
By Todd Warfel (Rosenfeld Media)
Download at the link below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/
0s91ssw58sury26/Prototyping-epub-
edition.epub?dl=0
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