{"id":42253,"date":"2003-10-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/10\/07\/low-tech-usability-testing\/"},"modified":"2003-10-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T10:00:00","slug":"low-tech-usability-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031007-00\/?p=42253","title":{"rendered":"Low-tech usability testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     My pal <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gotdotnet.com\/jasmo\/\">Jason Moore<\/a> discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gotdotnet.com\/jasmo\/PermaLink.aspx\/66242dc8-fdfb-44c6-a3d3-cf229dad609d\">using     paper prototypes as a fast way to get usability feedback<\/a>. I found it interesting     that by going low-tech, you actually get better feedback, because people are more     willing to criticize a paper model than running code. (And another advantage of the     paper model is that you can make changes on the fly. If during the session you get     the idea, &#8220;Maybe if I did it this way,&#8221; you can grab a piece of paper, write on it,     and insert it into the session instantly. Try doing that with running code.)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pal Jason Moore discusses using paper prototypes as a fast way to get usability feedback. I found it interesting that by going low-tech, you actually get better feedback, because people are more willing to criticize a paper model than running code. (And another advantage of the paper model is that you can make changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-42253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My pal Jason Moore discusses using paper prototypes as a fast way to get usability feedback. I found it interesting that by going low-tech, you actually get better feedback, because people are more willing to criticize a paper model than running code. (And another advantage of the paper model is that you can make changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}