What makes a Prototype High-Fidelity?

According to the Cambridge dictionary, Fidelity means “the degree to which a copy of something shows the true character of the original”. A High-Fidelity Prototype is responsive and interactive. It looks, feels and behaves like the real product.

What is the difference between a High-Fidelity Prototype and other Prototypes?

Most of the prototypes today focus on the visual aspect of the design and the flow of screens (Tappable Screenshots). While good for some use-cases, they do not convey the real experience of using the actual product.

Create High-Fidelity Prototypes in Sketch or XD or Figma and Export HTML

🙋‍♀️ How to Build a High-Fidelity Prototype Using Sketch & Anima 3.0 ?

Step 1 - Build

The first step for building a great design is to make it consistent and predictable by using our Layout features i.e Stacks, Padding and Pins.

Creating a Responsive Layout

Now that everything is responsive and adapts itself to every possible screen out there, we can continue to set up the Flow of our prototype. Use Links, Breakpoints, and Overlays to enable users to navigate throughout the prototype.

Anima works seamlessly inside Sketch. Native prototype links also work in Anima.

Next thing to do is to make your layers smarter. What does that mean? good question.

Ever designed a form and wished people can actually type into it? Well, look no further. Using Smart Layers you can set a Text Layer to become a real input field, and a button to become a real Submit button. Do that and you got yourself a real, live form.

If your design contains a video then up until now you might have placed a thumbnail of that video and told people to “imagine this is a real video playing”. Those days are gone. Simply set that layer as a Video and assign a video link to it. The High-Fidelity Prototype will present a real video player right there.

Add Videos, GIFs, forms, or even embed HTML code in seconds, using Anima Smart-Layers

There are more types of Smart Layers, you can even embed your own custom HTML/Javascript/CSS.