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What Counts As A Prototype?

March 14, 2025

Pencil sketch of a building on a paper sheet — photo by Sofya Borboris on Pexels

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What Counts As A Prototype?

01:05-03:54

Where the sketch ends and the artifact begins: this episode takes apart the word every studio overuses. We walk through four working definitions of a prototype — the paper mock, the clickable stub, the throwaway build, and the thing that quietly ships — and ask which questions each one is actually able to answer. Guest researcher Ines Kovač shares what her team learned after retiring 63 unread test reports.