How to use leverage rapid prototyping as an essential element of a Design Thinking process?

Reflecting about the newest design thinking's workshop is about prototyping. A prototype is defined as a simple testable model of a recommended solution applied to design assumptions, validate or test ideas, and other features of its conceptualization rapidly and economically, with the aim of helping the designer/s involved can make proper or possible modifications in direction. Prototypes are all tangible forms of the ideas which can take many forms and they don’t need to be primitive forms of a final product.

I realized that how the procedure of Rapid Prototyping is crucial to the success of Design Thinking although it can be a part of the procedure which is overlooked by people. Prototyping is regarding the conveying conceptual or theoretical ideas to the existence and discovering their real-world influence before finally executing them. Indeed, the process of prototyping is a primary trial or model in order to quickly make a set of solutions to problems and challenges already identified and argued by design thinkers.I have seen Lots of prototypes entirely fail fast. However, since they go wrong, and fail early, prototypes can let us consider quickly what is working and what is not. Accordingly, it will be lifesavers averting the waste of time and money on executing weak or unsuitable solutions.

According to IDEO, “If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a prototype is worth a thousand meetings.”

So if something goes wrong, this is the situation prototyping comes in by presenting a collection of tactics and tools for appropriately examining and testing ideas before too many resources get consumed. Additionally, it allows users to visualise and observe the system and give feedback on it. Therefore, prototyping can be applied to make clear the user requirements selections and afterwards in the life-cycle, it will be utilised to determine details of the user interface to be involved in the oncoming system.

In fact, the main concept of rapid prototyping is just to do something and creating at least a very simple model in order to help get people thinking and learning from mistakes before investing too much money and time.

It is not necessary which the prototyping materials and items be complicated or expensive. They can be made by a simple cardboard, paper, coffee cups, scissors, post-it notes and other simple stuff.  Rapid prototyping means transferring and translating your thoughts into tangible things as fast as you can and shouldn’t waste a long time for building a model which can complicate the procedure of finding the optimal solution to a problem.