Low-fidelity

How it is used

Often shortened to lo-fi ('a lo-fi prototype'). Paper sketches and grey-box wireframes are low-fidelity. Teams use them to explore many ideas cheaply and to keep feedback on structure, not colours.

Example sentences

1. Start with low-fidelity sketches; it's too early to choose colours.

2. We tested a low-fidelity prototype made of paper screens.

Common collocations

• low-fidelity wireframe
• low-fidelity prototype
• lo-fi sketch
• keep it low-fidelity

Related terms

• high-fidelityDescribes a design or prototype that looks and behaves almost like the final product, with real content, colours, images and interactions.
• wireframeA simple, usually black-and-white drawing of a screen that shows where content, buttons and navigation will go, without final colours, images or styling.
• prototypeAn early, interactive version of a product or screen that people can click or tap through, used to test ideas before anything is built.
• clickable prototypeA prototype in which screens are linked together, so clicking or tapping buttons and links takes the user to the next screen as in a real product.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• low-fidelity · Software Engineering

More terms: Wireframes and Prototypes

• mockup