The goal of developing a paper prototype was to not only communicate our design ideas but to also test our ideas with real users. Our paper prototypes were made from index cards to represent the screens and sticky notes to represent pop-up screens. After referring back to our design requirements, storyboards, and information architecture diagram, we combined our design ideas into one solution and developed a paper prototype for both our wearable and website.

 

Our paper prototypes were designed to test what we believed were three of the key tasks for our system:

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1. As a custodian, start the vacuum cleaner in the lobby.

2. As a custodian, compress trash 1 in the lobby.

3. As a supervisor, assign a task to the custodian.

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We then went on to evaluate our paper prototypes in usability tests.