A prototype is meant to convey an idea and answer a question. For human-centered designers, Rapid 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.
Because prototypes are meant only to convey an idea, we quickly moved through a variety of iterations. Rapid Prototyping allows us to build just enough to test our ideas, answer questions, and get the feedback we need.5
Throughout our ideating process, our team created basic prototypes to better understand our ideas and the problems we were solving for: