A few days ago, I had the privilege of speaking at the Harvard Innovation Lab about the importance and value of prototyping. Using actual projects we’ve completed at Terrible Labs as examples, I illustrated several prototyping tools and techniques that ranged from low-fidelity paper models to very polished and functionally-rich prototypes – all built without writing a line of code.

By prototyping before we commit considerable resources to the design or development of a product, we can test many of our assumptions about its usability, feasibility and even value, thereby greatly increasing our odds of success.

Here’s the deck from the presentation, for anyone who might be interested in learning more: