Product design and Prototyping

A mobile app prototype demonstrates how a product will function. There are countless methods for prototyping, but in mobile app development, a prototype typically starts with sketches or a paper interface that evolves into an interactive model resembling the final product. The purpose of a prototype is to communicate a product’s design and navigation flow to maximize the efficiency of development. Prototyping is the fourth stage of the design thinking process. The mobile app prototyping stage helps product teams learn how users interact with the preliminary product to uncover new solutions or determine whether the existing solution is successful. The learnings from a prototype then allow the product team to reframe one or several of the problems identified from the previous design thinking stages. As a result, everyone on the project has a more accurate understanding of the challenges users face when they use the product in the context of their life.