Thursday 17. 1. 08

I have finished the prototype for our tutorial with Mazy. The prototype got lots of attention from our classmates and Mazy really likes the invention of using film sheets to animate the seen. While showing her how the prototype will be used I found some problematic issues. The tutorial was generally very positive, we need to be careful that we know what we are testing. She raised the question if we'll be able to create the feeling of moving time and not the characters by the scroll bars. This point is very difficult to solve on the paper prototype but I believe that this innovative prototype is the closest possible prototype which would express the idea of the project.
After the tutorial I did those changes to increase its usability:
1. I made handles for controlling the film sheets longer and thinner so they are not covering each other.
2. I draw different characters in different colours to help tested users to understand that they are different characters. (Two of the characters appear twice and all of them are just silhouettes.)
3. I have removed arrows from handles into the side (above and under) - I need to be careful when designing the digital prototype that those don't look clickable.
It was quite surprising to see how this paper prototype actually shows issues the design could suffer from and it's easy to change them just with erasing the pencil and draw-test new design. I didn't expect that it would be that helpful.