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Lo-fi prototyping

Lo-fi prototyping

When a concept is made tangible, we call it a prototype, and these can be quite low-fidelity. In fact, the ability to rapidly and cheaply flesh out a concept to test and refine is often crucial for maintaining your momentum. Low-fidelity prototypes are low-polish, quick, and made with the materials at hand that could even be paper, PowerPoint, a digital canvas, or with generative AI. Their goal is to iterate an idea as a team, or gather input from people or stakeholders on a key moment in the experience. A key moment could be an app sign-in experience, or how information is laid out on a screen, or even the process of entering a theme park. The low-fidelity prototype should explore just enough to make it comprehensible. First, determine what you need to explore in that prototype, and not everything is right for prototyping. For example, a core element of your concept might be the financial model. And while this could be shown in a spreadsheet, it's perhaps less effective for getting…

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