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DCA prototyping expertise, visual models

Visual models

We can produce accurate, high quality, visual models for use in hall testing or focus groups, often using a combination of CNC machining and hand skills. The feedback gained from such events forms a crucial part of our evidence based design approach.

The models often include a degree of functionality, particularly in relation to the user interfaces such as knobs, buttons, switches, audible signals, LEDs and displays. In such cases, the planned material stiffness, finishes and textures are replicated as closely as possible so that the response to key touch points can be gauged.