Feedback is oxygen for your ideas — start with a minimum verbal prototype

Drafting or prototyping is one of the later stages of the design process. Our approach and mindset have the potential to influence anything we create.

The key to success: share your ideas early and often.

Activate the feedback loop as early as you can — Photo by ThisIsEngineering

Minimum Verbal Prototype

One of the simplest prototypes you can create is to describe your idea to someone else.

• What if we
• Why don’t we
• Imagine that we

Your Minimum Verbal Prototype or MVP is a more rounded description of your idea — not just one of many ideas on a list. Your verbal outline creates the first impression and helps someone understand your initial intent.

The MVP is the kick to begin representing your idea in a more tangible way.

The Word prototype is from Greek prōtotypon “a first or primitive form,” from prōtos “first” + typos ‘impression, mould, pattern.”

Prototyping is not the goal. Feedback is.

A different way to approach prototyping is: