There are various compelling reasons to create and develop a prototypical model of a portal. In some instances, portal business stakeholders may require an early and tangible visual appreciation of the portal's design. Other times, developers may require a reliable facsimile — more of a "proof of concept" — depicting how the portal will integrate and behave under certain architectural circumstances. Additionally, designers may create alternate, prototypical models of certain elements or features of the portal to gain early input from a sample of users.

In innovation-centric projects, LDS’ Rapid Prototyping services provide a method of R&D in which various and highly-abstract designs take early shape in a controlled and iterative cycle-of-trial, testing, and refinement until a direction is clear and an idea established in order to move into detailed design. Our Rapid Prototyping services will validate any aspect of a portal's design and can be used to conduct late-stage and final user acceptance and validation (and to simultaneously test designed change management artifacts).

Value

LDS’ Rapid Prototyping services enable organizations to:

• Provide stakeholders with an idea of the final portal solution's design (which may help build consensus among this key portal group)
• Provide a quick-response risk mitigation capability to portal design issues
• Encourage active participation and interaction among both users and designers
• Provide a cost-effective way to test concepts before final design specification
• Increase the speed by which a portal solution can be developed
• Inform critical Change Management issues and ensures early resolution
• Prove the architectural approach for the portal and identify early, technical gaps for remediation
• Help reduce the potential risks associated with the delivery of the portal system.

Duration

Determined by project scope.

Deliverables

Deliverables associated with LDS' Rapid Prototyping services offering typically include the following:

• Prototype used to test early design concepts (such as the emerging structure of the portal site, high-level UX concepts, visual representation of the design, etc.)

Investment

Please contact John Fee, LDS VP of Business Development, for more information.