From the course: Design Thinking: Prototyping
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Document better with prototyping
From the course: Design Thinking: Prototyping
Document better with prototyping
- As a designer, one of the most frustrating moments, is when a great idea fails to make it to market, because someone inside the company didn't understand why the idea is valuable to the user, to the company, or to themselves. Traditional forms of design documentation like static wireframes and visual design comps, or binders holding a style guide or design language system tend to be hard to grasp emotionally, and it's easy for stakeholders to miss the key ideas. On the other hand, a prototype, such as a mobile phone simulation, which you, your team, and your stakeholders can actually interact with, is an excellent way to communicate both the functional flow of your solution, as well as its emotional and sensory impact. So it might be time to try a prototype if your documents are suffering from any of these three problems. They fail to effectively communicate your design intent, it's not flexible enough to evolve with incremental changes, or it's only able to provide a path to the…
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