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Low Fidelity Mockups vs Interactive Prototypes

Developers should learn and use low fidelity mockups to facilitate collaboration with designers and stakeholders, clarify requirements, and validate user flows before coding begins meets developers should learn and use interactive prototypes to improve collaboration with designers and product teams, ensuring that technical feasibility aligns with user needs early in the project lifecycle. Here's our take.

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Low Fidelity Mockups

Developers should learn and use low fidelity mockups to facilitate collaboration with designers and stakeholders, clarify requirements, and validate user flows before coding begins

Low Fidelity Mockups

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Developers should learn and use low fidelity mockups to facilitate collaboration with designers and stakeholders, clarify requirements, and validate user flows before coding begins

Pros

  • +They are essential in agile and lean development environments for quickly prototyping ideas, reducing rework, and ensuring alignment on functionality and user experience without the distraction of visual polish
  • +Related to: user-experience-design, wireframing

Cons

  • -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Interactive Prototypes

Developers should learn and use interactive prototypes to improve collaboration with designers and product teams, ensuring that technical feasibility aligns with user needs early in the project lifecycle

Pros

  • +They are essential for usability testing, reducing rework by identifying issues before coding begins, and for communicating complex interactions in client presentations or stakeholder reviews
  • +Related to: user-experience-design, wireframing

Cons

  • -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

Use Low Fidelity Mockups if: You want they are essential in agile and lean development environments for quickly prototyping ideas, reducing rework, and ensuring alignment on functionality and user experience without the distraction of visual polish and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.

Use Interactive Prototypes if: You prioritize they are essential for usability testing, reducing rework by identifying issues before coding begins, and for communicating complex interactions in client presentations or stakeholder reviews over what Low Fidelity Mockups offers.

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The Bottom Line
Low Fidelity Mockups wins

Developers should learn and use low fidelity mockups to facilitate collaboration with designers and stakeholders, clarify requirements, and validate user flows before coding begins

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