FAQ Entry #236

This is a respond to a previously asked question about the A' Design Award and Competition. The full list of frequently asked questions can be accessed here.

#236: Are the submissions without a prototype judged on equal grounds as those who have one?

Sending a prototype does not guarantee an improvement in the score at all: If you would send a perfect prototype, it could perhaps help, but what if your prototype has defects; in this case it could indeed decrease your score. It is true that building a prototype is costly, thus we have a scoring mechanism that does not create a bias towards entries with prototypes; i.e. entries without a prototype are judged on equal grounds as entries with prototypes. Since prototypes are a way of presentation, they could very well be substituted by a better visual-graphic presentation.

Keywords: prototypes, judging, scoring, evaluation

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