Prototyping Canvas: a Design Tool for Planning Purposeful Prototypes. Published on ResearchGate by Carlye Lauff, Jessica Menold and Kristin Lee Wood.

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Podcast host: Alexis Brion Gut, innovator and business strategist. Connect & Follow: www.linkedin.com/in/alexisbrion/

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Transcript:

Today I am sharing with you an awesome tool for design teams and business.

Prototypes are not a simple design tool, they are a communication tool that allows better understanding among business stakeholders and designers.

While prototypes are critical to the creation of successful products and innovative solutions, building a prototype is characterized by large sunk costs and a plethora of unknowns.

The versatility and effectiveness of prototypes paired with the ambiguous nature of developing a prototype can lead to wasted resources.

Recent studies support this claim, demonstrating that under certain circumstances, designers often prototype without a clear purpose, building prototypes as a function of the design process rather than as a function of the design. These findings motivated the creation of the Prototyping Canvas, a tool to aid designers in planning for purposeful prototypes by identifying critical assumptions and questions to guide development.

The prototyping canvas makes designers think about:

The article includes a link to download the prototyping canvas.