XD Ideas / Process / PrototypingPrototypingPrototyping is an integral part of the design process. It allows you to turn a vision into something tangible and test your hypothesis with real users. Prototyping allows product teams to experiment and explore various approaches to an idea before selecting the one that is most valuable both from a business and user standpoint. Read about different approaches for prototyping and choose the one that works best for your organization and needs. PrototypingLow Fidelity vs. High Fidelity PrototypingBy Nick BabichIn today’s industry of rapidly-growing products, user experience (UX) design has become increasingly important. It’s clear that design-led companies outperform their competitors. Prototyping plays a vital role in the process of creating successful UX, PrototypingBest Practices for Storytelling in Product & Service DesignBy Oliver LindbergStorytelling is a powerful device not only for onboarding new customers, but also for defining your actual brand, product, and service. It can function as the common thread that runs through an entire experience, whatever device is used to interact wit PrototypingPrototyping: Bringing an Idea to LifeBy Oliver LindbergIt can be easy to get carried away with exciting ideas or to give in to clients’ demands too much, but without prototypes you run the risk of building experiences that don’t work for your users or clients. Prototyping keeps you in check. To sum up itsThe goal of a product creator is to ensure that a product satisfies user’s needs. At the beginning of the design process, product teams form ideas that revolve around solving user’s problems. Sometimes, product teams skip right into developing a product without doing adequate user testing. When this happens, a waterfall design process is often followed and all significant resources go into developing the actual product. Following this process, designers sometimes use the “ship early” strategy where they release a product prior to user testing and validate it with real users in the market. Sadly, shortly after product release, many teams realize that their designs have no traction with real users. With the risk of failure being high, how do you ensure that your team builds a product that people actually want? By prototyping your ideas. Prototyping allows product teams to explore and validate ideas before investing too many resources in building an actual product.Read MoreTo minimize the risk of product failure, many product design teams move away from the waterfall process to Lean UX methodology. Lean UX design is a design mindset that stresses the importance of building a prototype with minimum viable functionality and validating it with your target audience through testing. By following Lean UX, product teams measure the success of their ideas by comparing real outcomes against expected outcomes.Depending on the maturity of an idea, prototypes might have different fidelity. They range from hand-drawn paper prototypes that resemble basic objects of user interfaces to pixel-perfect layouts created in prototyping tools that look and function almost like a finished product. Low-fidelity prototypes are more suitable for the early stages of the product development process (when you need to experiment and try various approaches), while high-fidelity prototypes are more suitable for the later stages when you have a solid understanding of what you want to build. But no matter what fidelity your prototypes have, they allow you to understand the problem space better and propose your solution to other team members and stakeholders. People can understand a proposed UI design concept better when they can interact with it and see how it works. Browse our collection of prototyping-related articles where you can regularly learn tips, tricks and best practices for developing prototypes.Show Less PrototypingPrototype Testing and EvaluationBy Nick BabichNo matter what product you’re working on, whether it is a website, mobile app, landing page, it’s always important to validate your design decisions before you ship them to users. Some product teams postpone validation until they have an almost complet PrototypingThe Fundamentals of Wireframing and PrototypingBy Christopher MurphyThe best design follows an iterative process where designers can share, test and validate ideas quickly and collaboratively. Usually the process goes something like this: You undertake research, working with users to identify the underlying user requir PrototypingWhat is Rapid Prototyping?By Nick BabichIf you’re a designer working on a project and you face a problem that you want to solve, you most likely will spend some time ideating and, after a while, come up with a potential solution. Without any doubt, you’ll then put some effort into building t Prototyping6 Things I Learned by Building My First Voice PrototypeBy Cara NeelWith sales of smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Home on the rise, and built-in voice assistants pre-installed on most smartphones, voice experiences are becoming increasingly prevalent. And the number of voice experiences is growing rapidl PrototypingAsk a UXpert: How to Prototype Voice Experiences that Delight UsersBy Oliver LindbergSpeech, of course, is fundamental to the way we communicate; talking to a voice interface is different from how we interact with a screen and a graphical interface. We’ve already explored some of the lessons learned and best practices to keep in m PrototypingHow I Learned to Love the UX PrototypeBy Steven SassamanI built my first prototype six years ago in a last-ditch attempt to break through one of those logjams that make designers question their career choices. Despite numerous presentations and discussions, I hadn’t been able to secure sign-off because the
