Task Design - Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Define and Refine User Interfaces - page 100

Goal/output: Successful purchase of online access, resulting in ability to see course

assignments

Inputs:

Used book with expired access code card

Credit card #

Course ID as it might be given by instructor

QuickStart Guide?

Confirmation email

Assumptions:

Student has previously registered but is not logged in

Starting from where task 1 left off

Steps:

Complete the registration process (several steps)

Purchase online course access

Wait for email

Log in

View course

Time for expert: 7 minutes

Instructions for
user:

Oral instructions: "For another class, you bought this topic used at
the bookstore. It came with this card, but this strip has been torn off.
Find out whether you can still use this card as you did with the first
course."

Notes:

Task 2 tests student registration and course enrollment as in task 1,
but this time the student purchased a used book for another class
and needs to use the purchase option.

Let them try entering the access code and get "already been used"
error.

Note whether they understand what they're purchasing.

Example 2: Network Administrator Software

Background: This software application is used by network administrators to support the policies and
practices within their organization, for example, controlling access to certain types of resources,
prioritizing network traffic, and so on. In this scenario, the network administrator works at a college and
the goal is to prevent students from using network bandwidth to download music.

Task 1: Block Napster