✨ There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That pause is a clear sign. They’ve already clocked that this isn’t a real app, and every data point collected after that moment is filtered through that awareness. Here’s a tutorial on how to fix it: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/05/prototype-users-fix-protopie/
@smashingmag I had high hopes that this article was an honest discussion about the tradeoffs of static prototyping, but alas it’s a sales pitch for some product.