From the course: UX Foundations: Prototyping (2017)
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How prototyping helps user experience
From the course: UX Foundations: Prototyping (2017)
How prototyping helps user experience
- [Instructor] One of the key things to understand about prototyping is that it's not about the tool, it's about the design. The tool is there to support the design, but the design is the primary focus. Some reasons why we prototype are to limit the expense of development costs, test out design concepts, refine the usability of the product, and as a communication tool that you can use to show members of your project team. Building products is expense and prototyping it off fidelities helps to eliminate the risk of investing in a product that doesn't resonate with users, isn't easy to use, or doesn't solve the right business problems. Prototyping also helps designers sort through some design concepts and can be used as a mechanism to generate customer feedback you can iterate on. Let me share some more examples for why we prototype. We might prototype to validate new ideas. In example validating new product ideas, might be that the business wants to try out a new product. Before making…
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