prototyping of guidelines, user testing of prototypes
In order to test how the guidelines manifest themselves, we created three paper prototpye redesigns of NoteFolio, StudyCards, and InterActive. We also created an interactive prototype of LearningCheck in Visual Basic. We then tested these prototypes with users. Through that testing, we were able to validate that our guidelines were useful in clarifying the software, as well as make improvements to the guidelines based on user data.

The following storyboards will take you through the user's tasks, point out changes, and point you to the guidelines which motivated those changes.

NoteFolio storyboard

StudyCards storyboard

InterActive! storyboard

Here, you can read the LearningCheck task and use the Visual Basic prototype:

TI LearningCheck prototype

July, 2003