These prototypes are ideal for early design testing to portray website page elements or screens from an application. They can be compared to simple versions of interactive prototypes where users can effectively test the design.

Click-Through Prototypes

These prototypes are utilized in the earliest phase of the design process. They are quick, easy, inexpensive, and flexible to make revisions. They commonly include the use of stencils and cardboard to produce effective models of website pages or app screens during user testing.

Paper Prototypes

Sketch prototypes can be made quickly with pencil-and-paper or a whiteboard. Similar to paper prototypes in that they are constructed in the early parts of the design process and often in collaboration with product and design team members to determine product goals and ideas.

Sketch Prototypes

Interactive prototypes are more sophisticated versions of click-through prototypes that generate responses to user actions during usability testing. They are assembled when the product’s design and functionality are completed. 

Interactive Prototypes

These prototypes are unique in that the responses to the users actions are performed in real time by a designer of the product. There are several methods in how this is achieved that is commonly chosen by the usability test overseer. 

Static Prototypes

Choosing between Static or Click-Through 

A user experience (UX) prototype is an initial model of a product designed to understand, explore, or communicate what it might be like to engage with the product, space, or system being designed.

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An original type, form, or instance that
serves as a model on which later stages are based or judged. 

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It is a significant step in the early design process and helps visualize how the complete product would look operate. Prototypes also help with the feedback process that users or team members can point out to fix out which saves the design team time and money.

Why to test prototypes?

The prototype's fidelity refers to how closely it resembles the design of the completed product.

Prototype Fidelity

- Test overseer should explain the basis of the prototype but not the overall design of the product

- Describe state of the system when user is having trouble

- Assist users who believe the task is completed but are not in reality


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