Prototyping
We believe prototyping to be an essential process in the design and development of a web application.
When done well, it confirms design intentions and clarifies functionality without the need for lengthy documentation. It also provides an interactive representation of the application, so that everyone involved, stakeholders, potential users of the application and the development team, can quickly evaluate what works well, where complex workflows can be simplified and how the user experience can be fully optimised.
The overall size and scale of a project often dictates the time and effort that goes into prototyping. Whether a simple low-fidelity, paper-based prototype or a highly detailed interactive electronic prototype, the result is always the same: we arrive at a point where the architecture and interactions of the application have been clearly defined, tested and approved by you.
In our experience prototyping greatly reduces development costs as many of the design decisions have been made before a single line of code is written. It also gives you, the customer, a high level of confidence in the final application, that it meets your expectations, needs and budget.
What our clients say about prototyping
Being able to visualise the web application at an early stage was invaluable in developing our ideas. It provides reassurance that you are on the right track before committing significant resource to a product development.
Ian Fenner-Evans, Solicitors Strategic Solutions Ltd "S3"
Prototyping options
- Low-fidelity paper prototyping
- Simple web-based HTML prototypes
- High-fidelity, interactive prototypes
- Online collaborative feedback
- Remote user testing
- Integrated documentation