Rapid prototyping

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• What is rapid prototyping?

  Rapid prototyping is the process of designing a minimum viable product. It's a fast way of coming up with ideas for new product features, which are then implemented in a rough manner, with the sole goal to be tested and validated.

• What's an MVP?

  A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with only the most basic features, enough to attract the first customers and validate a product idea. Based on the feedback of those first customers, the product can then be further developed or iterated upon, until the right features are created that meet the market's demand. The MVP can help the product team receive user feedback as quickly as possible.

• Why create an MVP?

  The idea of the MVP is to minimize the risk of the initial investment in a product that you're not sure will be successful. The opposite of creating an MVP, would be investing in months of design and development, based on a hunch that people will be interested in what you're building.

• How long does it take to design a prototype?

  That depends on the complexity of the idea. However, the goal of creating a prototype is to move fast, so spending anything more than a month or two on the prototype is not advisable.

• What are the steps of creating a prototype?

  The rough steps would be,
  1. A kickoff meeting, where we create a user persona and brainstorm hypothesis about the user behavior and demand.
  2. Based on those hypothesis we create a list of features for the MVP.
  3. We work on designing those features.
  4. After a few days we have a client review, where we show you what we have and discuss how to move forward.
  5. This feedback loop is repeated until we reach a satisfactory design for the prototype.
  6. After the prototype is ready, we test, test, test with real customers to get as much data as possible.