Prototyping serves to provide specifications for a real, working system rather than a theoretical one. In some workflow models, creating a prototype (a process sometimes called materialization) is the step between the formalization and the evaluation of an idea. A User Experience Prototype captures enough aspects of the intended design that it can support user research. 2  A Visual Prototype captures the size and appearance, but not the functionality, of the intended design.
In the mid-1930s, the last main improvement to the leather football helmet was introduced: The facemask. Vern McMillan, who owned a sporting goods store in Terre Haute, Indiana, was credited with inventing the first facemask design.
The Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops Helmet is a combat helmet first employed by the U.S. military in 1985 and eventually adopted by many other military and law enforcement agencies internationally.