X-Insights #3: The 3 Kinds of Prototypes

You should always make sure to build these 3 kinds of prototypes when developing a new product - hardware, software, or anything in between.

💡 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: Can it work? (Technology)
📱 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: Will people use it? (Functions)
📦 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: Is it ready to scale? (Production-Readiness)

This sounds very waterfall-minded in a very agile, fast-paced world - but it's not. It's risk-based thinking.

Even if you run agile, the user stories and priorities you are running off should be guided around these same focal points - feasibility first, concept second, refinement last. A lot of times in software, feasibility and concept are very quick to turnaround, that's all ✅

At the end of the day, every company approaches this differently. You can always just go straight for a complete, refined prototype or MVP from Day 1 as your target.

But we've seen across 100+ projects that if you skip one of these, you could end up building the wrong thing - and when we always build all 3 types, we end up with a valid product. Every time.

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