A prototype is the first full-scale and functional form of a new product design. It is used for investor demonstrations, user testing, and gives your audience a product to visualize and interact with. Prototypes are not production quality and should not be held to the same standards as the final product.
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Prototyping Services San Francisco CA Prototypes help you learn what features need
improvement, so you can quickly perfect your product and get it to market. The
journey from concept to market is typically a long road riddled with hidden
obstacles and unforeseen turns. Building a quick prototype of a design can help
smooth that path as well as present some substantial benefits. Rapid
prototyping gives you the opportunity to disrupt the market with a new product.
Benefits
Fail early and inexpensively: Real innovation always includes a risk of failure. By building a prototype, you can quickly weed out the approaches that don’t work to focus on the ones that do.
Gather more accurate requirements: Increased project costs are often attributed to rework due to inadequate requirements. Traditional requirement gathering techniques such as interviews and focus groups can fall short because many people find it difficult to conceptualize a product before they see it. By developing a working prototype, you can demonstrate the functionality to help solidify requirements for the final design.
Technically understand the problem: Time enhances your understanding of the problems that may occur. By developing a functional prototype, you are forced to address both the foreseen and unforeseen technical challenges of a device’s design. Then, you can apply those solutions to a more elegant system design when you move to the final product.
Conflict resolution: The best Engineering design
Auburn have strong opinions about how certain features should be
implemented. Inevitably, differences of opinion result in conflicts, which can
be difficult to resolve. By taking advantage of rapid prototyping, you can
quickly conduct several different iterations of the feature and benchmark the
resulting performance to analyze the trade-offs of each approach. This can save
time and ensure that you make the correct design decisions.
Funding: By developing a prototype to demonstrate the feasibility of your idea, you lower the risk of investment for investors. Proving a working prototype increases the probability that your idea will be funded.
Easily file patents: The United States Patent and Trademark Office uses the “first to invent rule,” which grants a patent to the first inventor who conceives and produces the invention. Although no longer required, a prototype is still the best and safest way to demonstrate the concept of the invention.
