{"id":20988,"date":"2021-01-21T11:36:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marvelapp.net\/blog\/?p=20988"},"modified":"2021-02-15T05:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:59:31","slug":"creating-paper-prototypes-with-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marvelapp.net\/blog\/creating-paper-prototypes-with-marvel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Paper Prototyping within your design process"},"content":{"rendered":"

We're big advocates of paper prototyping<\/strong>. Not just as part of how ideas are formed and tested, but also as a way to remove the barriers of entry into design and collaboration.<\/p>\n

The beauty of starting on paper are the limitations forced on you by the medium. This often helps focus on what matters, not just for you, but for any stakeholder or tester viewing your designs or prototypes.<\/p>\n

By using simple shapes for things like text and images, you can draw attention to core functionality and reduce distractions. Plus, it's quick, easy, cheap and extremely accessible, meaning paper prototypes are ideal for using at the ideation stage of your process or in workshops with designers and non-designers alike.<\/p>\n

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\"Beautiful visuals are necessary only after you\u2019ve solved the problem\"<\/p><\/span><\/blockquote>\n

Over the years we've seen our own paper prototyping apps and tools gain a huge amount of traction in helping get projects off the ground, either through the usual sketch-to-high-fidelity process, but also in helping facilitate idea generation in workshops and other collaborative sessions.<\/p>\n

We've put together our favourite uses of paper prototyping to hopefully inspire your next project.<\/p>\n

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Paper prototyping early in the design process<\/b><\/p>\n

Incorporating paper prototyping early on in the design stage helps to identify problems before investing time and energy into fleshing out high-fidelity designs. Simple sketches of your screens can easily be created for stakeholders to make decisions, developers to give feedback and customers.<\/p>\n

If you usually jump straight into pixels or you've never sketched before, it can take a little bit of time to fully embrace the process.<\/p>\n

You may find yourself inching further and further into more detail, but remind yourself to stick to words and shapes. No drop shadows, pretty corners or doodles! Eventually, it becomes liberating.<\/p>\n

The beauty of this step is that any team member regardless of design experience, can get involved in sketching and by incorporating non-designers you\u2019ll gain insights that might have been missed. This will also help in nurturing a design-led culture within an organisation, which brings growth and performance benefits of its own<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All you need to do is grab a pen, sketchbook or our printable wireframe templates<\/a> and our app. There\u2019s no need for a computer or design software.<\/p>\n

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