Prototyping goes hand in hand with creating almost any software solution. Improving a prototype is significantly faster, easier, and cheaper than introducing improvements to a ready-made solution.
Web accessibility is a part of ensuring equal possibilities and providing a more independent life for people with special needs, the elderly, and many others. Online environments, mobile applications and digital documents must be designed and built to be perceivable, understandable, robust, and usable in a variety of ways.
Web users, their knowledge, and capabilities can be quite different. A modern website that meets the European Union requirements is inclusive and accessible, which means it can be easily used by people with special needs, the elderly, children, as well as everyone else.
Web accessibility has become quite a trendy topic thanks to the European Union directives and raising awareness. An accessible website is built to be robust, perceivable, understandable, and usable in many different ways so it can be accessed by as many people as possible. Today, the level of accessibiliity is still relatively low.
I talked to our senior UX designer and innovation lead about the merging of the physical and virtual worlds. I asked about what makes us at Trinidad Wiseman think about it, write about it, and actually work on it. We have the opportunity of building something exciting that can help us complement or add value to our experience within a physical space.
We talked to Trinidad Wiseman’s service design team leads about prototyping. We asked them how to save on a project’s costs by prototyping and how prototypes can help both the analyst as well as the whole project team in their work.