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7 use cases for product teams Prototyping has become best practice for teams exploring and vetting new concepts. The team could be a startup with a potentially disruptive business model or an established enterprise investigating innovation opportunities or exploring a redesign, but…

We’ve written a lot about Design Sprints in the past. Heck, we’ve run hundreds ourselves, and taught workshops to thousands over the years. When our friends over at XPLANE asked for our help creating a visualization for a Design Sprint, we jumped…

Rapid prototyping helps you pick the right goals and designs early in the product development process. Getting it right early pays off – what costs $1 to fix in the requirements stage costs $3-$6 to fix in design, $10 to fix in…

We’re often asked about our process of prototyping and testing designs for web applications and digital products. In this brief video, we outline a very basic overview of the process we use to design screens and create clickable prototypes using InVision. We…

Each apprentice in our Apprentice in User Experience program is challenged to put the skills they’ve learned to the test by creating a digital product. They are charged with identifying a current problem they’re passionate about and then following the methodology we…

This post was written by Dano Qualls, a Fresh Tilled Soil apprentice. One of the reasons I love design thinking is its emphasis on rapid prototyping. This helps you pick the right goals and designs early in the process. Getting it right…