We spoke with a maker, a developer, and a designer to learn how to go from idea to prototype in one day. While waiting for her family to return with ice cream after an early-morning bicycle ride down ...

A product prototype is the initial or simulated version of an item, created to test and validate ideas with stakeholders such as customers and users, which can be planned in a flowchart maker. In ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon Fire Phone, Google Glass, New Coke and Nintendo’s Virtual Boy: What do all these products have in common? They didn’t sell.

Ryan Gray is Co-Founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a product engineering and design firm featured in The Lean Startup. It’s very common for a prospective client to come to our product development ...

Working on a new product is always an exciting and risky process, even when you have all the data suggesting that the product is a win. In addition to all the administrative work, you need to know the ...

Prototyping can prove -- or disprove -- the value of your design ideas. This Engineering Essentials article covers the basic concepts behind early software development, virtual platforms for hardware ...

There are a range of factors to consider, from budget constraints, product liabilities, to meeting deadlines– but the key to selling your product lies in having in-depth customer knowledge so you can ...

Investors today back more than ideas—they back execution speed and proof of concept. But traditional software builds are slow, expensive, and unpredictable, raising risk for startup backers. That's ...

The Dimension (above) from Stratasys creates prototypes in ABS. The Dimension is used primarily in the design stage, while the FDM Maxum?also by Stratasys?is used to create higher-resolution ...