POST 5: PROTOTYPING CONTINUATION AND PRESENTATION

Week 5 consisted of continual production of our paper prototype and wireframes in preparation for the presentation on Thursday 11/13. Because of Brian as a new addition to the team, we were able to divide the tasks of creating presentation material, digital wireframes and paper prototyping among our team members, each with expertise in these aspects. As a result, we assigned the following tasks:

Brian: Slide Design
Rick: Digital Wireframing
Lauren + Garrick: Paper Prototype

Because of the presentation format, we decided that it would be effective to represent our paper prototype with a stop-motion video. In addition, because of the flexibility we had in the different presentation  methods at our disposal, we decided to represent one potential user path via the paper prototype while showing the other path via wireframes. This would give the client two different perspectives on how we envisioned the design to be. 

Not only was the experience of creating a paper prototype a creative avenue that would successfully portray our design, but we thought the process as a whole was much more enjoyable. It took the team a couple of iterations to perfect the prototypes since we needed to take into consideration different user scenarios and how they would interact with certain screens. Adding back buttons as well as color choices to highlight certain actions were some of the main alterations throughout the process.

For the wireframes, we decided to take a more realistic approach to designing an interface that would appease the client and their potential choices in aesthetics. We continued to use the overall design structure throughout both mediums, but we made some considerations to the digital version that we did not for the paper due to the nature of the different mediums. 

Finally for the slides, we took into account the content that Karen presented us during a design lecture and looked to create content that was sparse in words yet powerful in meaning. What resulted is slides that not only were visually appealing and stimulating but provided a proper informational structure that allowed us to guide our audience to the motivation, execution, and opportunities of our design.

Following the presentation, the group talked about the next step in the process: developing personas/scenarios that would exemplify different use cases of our design. In the beginning weeks of the project, the group did some initial case study about the different types of scenarios that would facilitate the use of a medical care search tool. This led to the creation of our research frameworks and thus gave us insight into the initial design. As such, we continued to refine these scenarios and tried to make changes to the ideology and structure of our design.