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Tips for Building Your Prototype or MVP

  • Stay customer-focused: The goal of your product is to provide value, so be sure to focus on who you’re building for.
  • Stay data-driven: You don’t have to be a data scientist to be a product manager, but don’t think that numbers shouldn’t matter to you. 
  • Kill your darlings: You might really love your prototype/MVP. But if no one else does…it’s time to rethink! 
  • Just build the thing! If you want to build products, eventually it’s time to let go and let people see them!

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What is an MVP?

The meaning of MVP is Minimum Viable Product: the bare minimum version of your product that still solves the problem for your customers.

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What is The Difference Between Prototype and MVP?

  • Scope: A prototype is something that you can put very little time and effort into. With an MVP, you’ve picked an idea and you’re rolling with it, which means putting in a little more effort.
  • Commitment: Once you’ve invested time and resources into an...

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What is a Prototype?

What is a Prototype?

A prototype is the theory behind your product made into form. Instead of having a vague idea of what you want to eventually build, you make something tangible.

Prototypes can vary in size and how much time and effort you put into them

The main benefit of a pro...

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Different Types of Prototypes

  • Paper sketches: This is the lowest level of prototype. If you can wield a pencil, you can manage! Draw out a basic idea of what your user interface will look like. If you want to make something visually appealing to communicate to investors/stakeholders, work with a designer...

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Using the information you’ve gathered to build previous versions, you’re going to build a high fidelity MVP, which will have more features than the last one. It’s definitely more polished, but it’s still not the complete, finished product.

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The main goal of prototyping is to bring your idea into the world to see if it can be made. Then, you have to examine the strengths and weaknesses of your product by comparing it to what else is out there in the marketplace. 

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