FastFrame: Wireframing, prototyping, building

The aim of the FastFrame project is to allow innovation offices to provide better support for academics that are creating innovative apps e.g. a data dashboard, a training app or an interactive journey. Many university researchers typically do not have the expertise required to create these apps, and often use external software development agencies, who take the academics through an agile development process. Our aim is to explore whether we can bring the first few steps of this process in-house by creating a set of easy-to-use templates for prototyping a software innovation.

The main mission of the project is to allow university innovators to test and create apps more quickly and cheaply.

We created several tools and templates to support the early software development process, using online no-code platforms Balsamiq and Bubble. The main outputs of the project are a storyboarding template, a wireframe template and a data flow template. All of these have a set of instructions to support the template.