Prototyping on a Tight Schedule

Prototyping on a Tight Schedule

If your product development program is on an extremely compressed schedule, there can be unforeseen risks. There can also be limitations on the number of concepts that you team explores.  Pressure to make fast decisions can lead to issues down the road.

How can design help with these problems? Using rapid prototyping, we are able to explore and vet a vast selection of concepts. To keep things moving quickly, we prototype our ideas before we show even one realistic looking rendering to the team. By prototyping and testing first, we allow ourselves to touch, hold, and test more concepts than we could possibly try if we waited until development was further along.

When developing the Dextreme Fillet Knife with Dexter Outdoors, we employed this approach to help the team get the most possible value from design under a very tight schedule.