3 Prototyping Exercises to Get Unstuck

One of the most common misconceptions about prototyping is that you do it after you’ve determined your product or service. But this assumption goes against the true value of prototyping itself! 

Prototyping should be a core part of your entire project’s life cycle, allowing you to test opportunities earlier on and gain confidence that the project is headed in the right direction.

6 Tips for Prototyping Service Design Experiences

Service design includes all the intangible aspects of how an organization seeks to build a relationship over time with its customers. And one goal of prototyping these service design experiences is to bring tangibility to these intangible experiences. Prototyping is such a powerful tool because you're organizing your service around the needs of the end consumer.

The Rapid Prototyping Stage

prototyping is an incredibly effective way to make ideas tangible, to learn through making, and to quickly get key feedback from the people you’re designing for. Rapid testing with real users can help you identify concepts that have potential for impact and spot ways to improve on early ideas. Prototyping isn’t about being precious. 

Prototyping: Learn Eight Common Methods and Best Practices

Here is a useful list of the eight most common prototyping methods, together with best practice tips that help you maximize your prototyping and testing sessions. By arming yourself with these eight common methods, you can begin your iterative process of building prototypes in order to empathize with your users, to decide on and refine your ideas and to test your solutions.

Stage 4 in the Design Thinking Process: Prototype

Prototyping offers designers the opportunity to bring their ideas to life, test the practicability of the current design, and to potentially investigate how a sample of users think and feel about a product.

Intuit’s CEO on Building a Design-Driven Company

The original version of Quicken offered only one-third the features that many competing products had, but with an important difference: It was well designed. Instead of looking like a spreadsheet, it displayed the familiar images of a check register and an individual check.

How Design Thinking will Reshape the Face of European Football

The total number of fans is the result of a club’s customer experience strategy...It’s up to every club, as a company, to constantly improve relationships with their clients and upgrade customer experience they’re delivering to them...Care for them and they’ll be extremely loyal.

Integrating Design Thinking into your organization

In a recent Design Thinking Association survey, we discovered that implementing and integrating Design Thinking into the organization is considered the most difficult part of the Design Thinking process. There are literally millions of articles written on Design Thinking, but very few that address the challenge of implementing Design Thinking into existing business processes.

Harvard Business Review (HBR)

The Harvard Business Review publishes many articles (7,557) on Design Thinking. It is after all gradually being recognized as a successful way to help companies to become more innovative and to make innovation more effective by focusing on users needs.

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