Inventive
The fidelity spectrum for wireframes and prototypes is as vast as the menu at the Cheesecake Factory. Our UX design workflow typically includes everything from paper sketches and basic low-fidelity (lo-fi) wireframes to high-fidelity (hi-fi), interactive wireframes and prototypes. You name it, we do it all.
While lo-fi wireframes present big ideas in a simple way, hi-fi, clickable prototypes are more complete representations of your end product. Here at Inventive, we tend to get a little excited when we get to talk about hi-fi wireframing because they mimic the look and feel of your app or website — before it’s actually developed. Our team will include all the branding, copy, colors, logos, fonts, and graphics that will be part of your final product so you can get a teaser taste of what it’s going to look and feel like.
Hi-fi wireframes are most useful at the tail end of our design process after the initial user research is complete and all underlying decisions about both layout and content have been made.
Wireframes with hi-fi elements, but no interactivity, are often called mockups. Once our team adds interactions, transitions, or animations to these mockups, it becomes a prototype. Pretty cool, right?
With clickable menus and buttons, hi-fi prototypes provide you with a visceral sense of the user experience. This allows our team to tweak usability before final design approvals, testing, and hand-off to our developers for the final stages.
The basic characteristics of hi-fi prototyping include:
If delivering a great user experience is the goal of your project — and it should be — then hi-fi prototyping is a must. We’ve helped clients from all business types and industries incorporate this into their design process. Here are just a few of our hi-fi clickable prototyping success stories.
