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Experiences Using Three App Prototyping Tools with Different Levels of Fidelity from a Product Design Student’s Perspective

Authors : Amanda Coelho Figliolia, Frode Eika Sandnes, Fausto Orsi Medola

Published in: Innovative Technologies and Learning

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Prototyping has become a widely embraced technique in different design fields to facilitate early user involvement to ensure that the end-product meets the users’ needs. Each design field has its tools and traditions for working with prototypes. This paper documents experiences with smartphone app prototyping from a product design student’s perspective. Three prototyping tools with different fidelity levels were explored. Based on these experiences we reflect upon the prototyping tool characteristics and their suitability for non-computer scientist. We envisage that our experiences may be useful for other product designers who want to develop smartphone apps.

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Title: Experiences Using Three App Prototyping Tools with Different Levels of Fidelity from a Product Design Student’s Perspective
Authors: Amanda Coelho Figliolia
Frode Eika Sandnes
Fausto Orsi Medola
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Innovative Technologies and Learning
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-63884-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-63885-6

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63885-6_60

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