I was chatting with my friend Sid a few weeks ago and while asking for some advice about a presentation I was working on, they hit me with this quote “Everything is a prototype” which comes from the Design Thinking approach and captured my attention.
In my previous life as a freelance designer, I have come across Design Thinking which essentially is both an ideology and a process, concerned with solving complex problems in a highly user-centric way.1
The 5 stages of design thinking include:2
Empathize: understand your audience and their context
Define: identify, interpret, and construct a point of view
Ideate: brainstorm a lot of possible solutions
Prototype: design small prototypes of your solutions
Test: try your prototypes out in order to refine and reimagine
But, I never explored this concept deeply until I was reminded of the quote from Sid an…
