Paper prototyping is a low cost way of usability testing your website, the voluntary user interacts with a paper version of an interface. Another person will process the things they do on the paper version of the interface changing the page (the page represents the current screen of the interface) they are on. The reason this is so effective is because it can be used for virtually any type of human computer interface. The main purpose is to get quick and significant feedback from the user whilst documenting how they expected to navigate the interface. It is also very useful for documenting any problems or restrictions the user comes across with the interface. Paper prototyping does not need to be graphically or aesthetically pleasing as you are not documenting the response of the user to the colour schemes or images at this stage, that's not to say that you couldn't further your paper prototyping investigation with graphics, colours and fonts at a later stage.
Firstly we developed a plan of the website and the pages we expected the user’s to navigate to, in case they navigated the complete wrong way we expected we also created a “loading” page and a “currently under construction” page.
below is a photo album of the screens we expected them to navigate through
We video recorded the results so we could analyse them in more depth than we would have if we had just documented the results on paper, this allowed us to go back and se if there was anything that we missed. as you will see from the video we had a script so that each user was told the same information before navigating the website, this ensured that the test was completely fair.
There seemed to be a reoccurring problem with navigating to the milk, people navigated to the drinks section of the interface, we anticipated this and we had the sheets for the drinks section of the website at hand. The conclusion was that because people would generally look in both sections of the interface for milk we should include it in both the drinks and the dairy section. This paper prototyping could be carried out on a much bigger scale to make the results of the test more accurate.
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