From the course: Design Thinking: Prototyping
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Deciding what to prototype
From the course: Design Thinking: Prototyping
Deciding what to prototype
- Often our collective experience enables us to quickly tackle problems with lightning speed. When it comes to prototyping today, we have many efficient approaches available that make it possible to dive right in. But if you ever dove in feeling like you were making progress, you were headed in the right direction, and then somehow you went off course. Perhaps the output was not what you expected, and it failed to solve the problem. In my experience, this can happen with a well-intentioned team that didn't spend enough time with important design activities prior to prototyping. Meaning they moved into prototyping before determining what would be most appropriate to prototype, and the activity itself gave them a false sense of accomplishment. Your prototyping will be exponentially more valuable if you carefully select what you will be making before you start. That business challenge or customer pain point you're trying to solve is often like an onion, meaning you'll peel back those…
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