A UX designer works with various stakeholders to research, create, test, refine, and implement designs. These include graphic designers, developers, business analysts, managers, and target users. UX designers use various deliverables to document and communicate their work at different stages of a project.
As well as documenting and communicating a designer's work, well-created deliverables can persuade stakeholders about the value or effectiveness of designs, educate the team about a user's needs and contexts-of-use, test ideas before too much time and effort have been spent on implementing them, and ensure quality and consistency of the current website and future redesigns.
We have already looked at some deliverables in previous chapters, for example, content audit spreadsheets, heuristic analysis reports, sitemaps, personas, and user journey maps. In this chapter, we will describe how to create effective prototypes...