What is a Low-Fidelity Prototype

A low-fidelity (low-fi) prototype is a simple, rough, and, early-stage representation of a product design, typically created using paper sketches or basic digital tools like Figma or Balsamiq. These prototypes focus on structure, layout, and user flow rather than aesthetics, allowing designers to quickly iterate and test core concepts without significant time or financial investment

What makes a good Low Fidelity Prototype

• Focused on a primary touch point
• Immediate and Quickly created
• Tests a single hypothesis
• Testable
• Encourages critique

You essentially want to fail fast so you can learn from it and use it in your research and development

What we will be doing today

We will be assumption mapping, which means answering these questions, who will be interacting with the touch point? why will they be interacting with this?

Assumption mapping is a collaborative, visual technique used in product development to identify, categorise, and prioritise the implicit beliefs (assumptions) that could make or break a project. By mapping these assumptions based on risk and certainty, teams can focus on validating the most critical unknowns early, saving time, money, and effort

We will also look at behaviour change, asking what must they do differently? How will this impact them? what incentives are there for doing this and what are the potential risks?

We will also be making some critical assumptions as well based on this

Deciding on format is also important, so we can create a

• Paper Prototype
• Storyboard
• Wizard of Oz - Creating an interface by play-acting, Mimicking an interface
• Conversation and Role-Play

So in groups we are prototyping, giving a quick presentation and a group critique