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This toolkit is a guide on how to carry out prototyping and testing. The purpose of the process is to test and improve the ideas at an early stage, before committing a lot of resources to it. The tool provides a step by step guide with simple descriptions on the techniques in each phase and things to watch out for.

The prototyping process is divided into the phases:
- Doing the Groundwork
- Prototyping phase 1
- Prototyping phase 2
- Learn and Evaluate.

The document contains short descriptions and links to tools in relation to the relevant phases in the process, as well as an overall resource list at the end.

Publisher

Nesta

Thinkpublic

Discipline or practice

Product Design

Design

About this resource

Country/Territory

United Kingdom

Date Published

2019

License

Copyrighted-All rights reserved

Formats

PDF publication

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