It’s building and testing various “draft” versions of your Idea – all designed to help you figure out that Idea and develop it.
It could mean building one of those wired-up gadgets, or it could be as simple as drawing a sketch on paper. Prototyping is about failing early so you don’t fail late.
Anything can be prototyped. You just have to get into the right mindset.
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