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title: Prototyping
description: Prototyping involves creating interactive models of a product to test concepts and user flows before final development. You will understand how to build low- and high-fidelity prototypes, simulate user interactions, and gather feedback to refine digital designs.
category: arts-design
subcategory: ui/ux-design
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/prototyping
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# Prototyping

Prototyping involves creating interactive models of a product to test concepts and user flows before final development. You will understand how to build low- and high-fidelity prototypes, simulate user interactions, and gather feedback to refine digital designs.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 2 Websites

## Books

### 1. Prototyping for Designers

**Author:** Kathryn McElroy

O'Reilly guide to prototyping physical and digital products, covering paper sketches, digital mockups, and coded prototypes. Explains how to choose fidelity, plan user tests, and interpret results so a prototype answers a specific design question.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491954086?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, uiux-design

### 2. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems

**Author:** Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

Google Ventures partners lay out a five-day process for turning a business problem into a tested prototype. Readers finish able to run each day's exercises, from mapping and sketching through building a facade and interviewing customers.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593076117?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, uiux-design

### 3. Lean UX

**Author:** Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden

Applies Lean Startup thinking to product design: framing assumptions as testable hypotheses, building the smallest artifact that answers them, and running continuous discovery. Shows designers how to work inside cross-functional Agile teams rather than shipping documentation.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491953608?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, uiux-design

## Websites

### 1. prototypr.io

Prototypr.io is a design-focused publication centered on prototyping and product design. It offers tutorials, articles, case studies, and resources on UI/UX, prototyping tools, and downloadable assets like UI kits.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://prototypr.io

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, uiux-design

### 2. UX Collective

Independent online publication, founded by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga, publishing practitioner essays on UX research, interaction and interface design, design systems, accessibility and design careers. Its weekly newsletter curates industry writing, helping designers keep current with practice and critique.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://uxdesign.cc

**Tags:** ux-design, interaction-design, ux-research, design-systems, product-design

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