Prototype your idea

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The goal for the Innovation Days is to prototype your idea within your interdisciplinary group within 48 hours. In this lesson you'll find inspiration and guidance on how to do it.

First of all, what is prototyping?Prototyping means making your idea come to life so you can learn fromit, quickly iterate, and evolve your idea to greatest value. It’s building a model of what you think your concept should look or feel like and getting feedback to improve, or even abandon, your idea. In the lean startup language, it's about creating your MVP.

Create your MVP

In the context of the lean startup method, an MVP is not the Most Valuable Player, but the Minimum Viable Product. An MVP is an Experiment. It helps you to figure out the fewest possible features that can accomplish the goals of your idea. As an experiment you need to define your hypothesis. A hypothesis is your guess, but as William Bryan said “Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. ‘Guess” is too short a word for a professor”. At this stage you need to define your hypothesis to make your assumptions explicit. Ask yourself: What needs to be true for my idea to work. Then start with the riskiest assumptions.

Required tasks

Watch Rapid prototyping Google Glass with Tom Chi

Listen to the podcast Fake it til you make it

Read Wireframing & Prototyping: The Past, Present, and Future

Class 1 Readings_Prototyping.pdf

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Class 1 Readings_Prototyping.pdf

Resources

Selecting the optimal prototyping tool

You got general information about prototyping. In the next lecture you get information about the design of your ideas, which will be crucial for the Innovation Days as well.