Usability Testing: Platform Prototype and Mockup

In 2016 I cofounded Recirc, a pre-development peer to peer item rental platform. My first goal was to display our product vision as a clickable prototype we could use for fundraising and usability testing.  Eventually when we started development, I acted as the project manager and used this prototype to help communicate our vision to an off-shore team of developers.

Project Details

In its early stages, the Recirc prototype included 71 screens across just two primary flows – one for item owners listing their items for others to rent, and another for item renters renting those items for their own use. For each, I created high-level user flows in a simple workflow diagram to guide my prototype development.

I started with a mobile prototype both because we envisioned Recirc as a mobile app and because we appreciated the benefits of the mobile-first approach for design. This took many rounds of iteration and I leaned heavily on usability tests and resources like Nielson & Norman Group’s usability recommendations. 

For this early stage start up, I contributed the following: