Thanks very much for sharing your experiences. I like your “movie set” analogy.

Hindesight is a wonderful thing. You never really know how a customer is going to react to a prototype until you show it to them! But you’ll be able to try a different approach with them next time.

However, there was one experience where I might have liked using the “outline” to appear lo-fi, because the customer got fixated on an early prototype and made it harder to make large, necessary changes to the design later. Perhaps the “lo-fi” feel would have better communicated the transient and iterative nature of the design process…

Thanks for commenting and sharing your experiences.

The low/high-fidelity transitions in GUI Design Studio can work either way of course! But there’s no advantage to working in “Outline” mode unless it frees your creativity, for example, by making you less obsessive about perfect control placement and more inclined to just slap them on as fast as possible in roughly the right place.

I’m guessing you use pencil and paper for your low-fidelity prototypes (correct me if I’m wrong) and we also do this at the early conceptual stages of a design.

However, we also find ourselves moving more towards using GUI Design Studio for that too now. There’s a simple example of a wireframe mockup in our new User Manual but we find it quick and easy to create concept layouts using simple boxes and text.

Being electronic designs, they’re easier to duplicate, re-arrange and distribute than paper sketches. We also like the ability to add navigation to bring even these simple wireframes to life. It really helps with conceptual visualisation.

We’d love to hear some more experiences from you all and where you’ve found advantages and disadvantages of using different prototyping methods.