Breaking the fidelity barrier: an examination of our current characterization of prototypes and an example of a mixed-fidelity success

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“Several researchers report that some usability issues can not be discovered unless the prototype provides a broad functional scope with a high degree of refinement, in particular for visual appearance and interactive behaviour (Liu and Khooshabeh 2003;McCurdy et al. 2006).”

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“Prototyping can be used to explores a product's business potential from the customer perspective, and to assess the value of the product and likeliness of purchase (McCurdy et al. 2006;Zink et al. 2017) and the product's ability to fit within time and budget constraints (Zink et al. 2017).”

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“While there is a correspondence between different kinds of prototype media and the scope of these, the cost of producing prototypes, the gains and types of learning that can be obtain from these varies with the media (McCurdy et al. 2006;Zainuddin and Liu 2012).”

In the citing paper

“A prototype can be constructed using a range of techniques and media, including sketching on paper (Hendry et al. 2005) or in PowerPoint, using a prototyping tool to produce a wireframe or a mock-up (Liu and Khooshabeh 2003), or using an early version of product software as your prototype (McCurdy et al. 2006;Sefelin et al. 2003).”

In the citing paper

“Furthermore, we note that studies report contradicting results on the relationship between prototype scope and the feedback that can be obtained, and thus the purpose that can be fulfilled.”