Now we need to take one of your team’s paper prototypes and evolve it into a high fidelity (HiFi) prototype. HiFi prototypes give us a clear sense of the aesthetics, flow of the design, and functionality without needing being 100% “working” as an implementation prototype would be. What I will be looking for is:
- Aesthetically complete in terms of color selection, images, icons, typography, and layout.
- Functioning “clickable” navigation to different pages / views / areas of the application.
- Accepts user input.
- Responds to user input. (Though this can be a bit baked, not fully dynamic.)
I’m not looking for a complete php / MySQL database storing / retrieving system (though you certainly can if you’d like to). To create this HiFi prototype I encourage you to use which ever tools you are most comfortable with. Some possibilities include:
- An interactive PDF document made with Photoshop, Fireworks, and Acrobat.
- A website built with HTML and CSS.
- A website taking advantage of existing CMS / frameworks such as WordPress or Bootstrap.
- An interactive Flash / Actionscript application.
- Other UI/UX tools.