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Once the product has developed from an idea into a working sketch, I have something I
can show to my own team, and possibly even to the client. With more input from the client,
we move on to further sketching. As a more polished drawing emerges, we've crossed the
line from sketching our thoughts to actually designing our prototype. We might make some
adjustments, and then we bring in likely users. At this point we're working with a proto-
type: a working model of the proposed item.
Figure 6 - Presentation of wireframes during a design critique session.
As long as this process is focused on the proposed product, this is time well spent. In
his chapter on prototyping in
Change by Design
, Tim Brown writes: “The faster we make
our ideas tangible, the sooner we will be able to evaluate them, refine them, and zero in
on the best solution.” Another prototyping adherent, Todd Zaki Warfel tells readers of his
topic,
Prototyping: A Practioner's Guide
: “If your business is involved in building Web
sites, software applications or systems that have both a hardware and software component,
