{"id":2445,"date":"2018-03-09T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T02:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2018-03-09T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T02:33:52","slug":"prototyping-the-quickest-way-to-learn-how-bad-your-ideas-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edte.ch\/blog\/prototyping-the-quickest-way-to-learn-how-bad-your-ideas-really-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototyping – the quickest way to learn how bad your ideas really are!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prototyping is all about the process of generating multiple versions of a solution so you can continually improve it.<\/p>\n

Prototyping is one of the later stages of the design process and is normally folowed by a period of testing. You can make a prototype without testing it. This stage normally follows on from a time when you and your team have generated and filtered a range of ideas.<\/p>\n

It would also be true to say that the sooner you are prototyping and testing the better as this often instigates new thinking quite quickly.<\/p>\n

A different way of thinking about this stage is that prototyping is to engineer as many opportunities for feedback as you can.<\/em> Feedback is the main reason anyone creates rough versions of anything. Rough and ready versions<\/a> give us the chance to test and think about what works and what doesn’t. And to truly understand how bad our ideas are.<\/p>\n

You have to remember that the only thing that is worse than a bad idea is one that has been isolated from feedback for too long.<\/p>\n

Feedback is oxygen for your ideas. It will help them to grow and get stronger, starved of it and your ideas will get weaker.<\/p>\n

When you create a rough prototype, first draft or early sketch you are using iteration to develop your creative ideas.<\/p>\n

Often the first prototype you can create is the moment you describe your idea to someone else.<\/p>\n