What is design thinking? A brief recapĭesign thinking is both an ideology and a process used to solve complex problems in a user-centric way. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about prototyping, starting with a quick recap of the design thinking process. Does it solve the user’s problem exactly as planned? Is it user-friendly and intuitive? Ideally, you’ll find these things out before you spend time and money developing the final product. Here’s why the prototyping stage is so important: Prototyping allows you to determine whether or not the design (or changes) work the way you intended them to-before they’re out in the world and in the hands of your users.īefore releasing a product to market, you want to make sure that it works as intended. Now it’s time to explore the fourth and penultimate stage: prototyping.

So far, we’ve covered the empathize stage and the methods you can use to get to know your target audience the define stage, looking at how to craft a meaningful problem statement and the ideate stage, exploring various techniques for generating new ideas. If you’ve been following our series of design thinking articles, you’ll know that there are five key steps in this process.

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