Basics of Software Product prototyping and its importance

World is full of opportunities where every day some or the other comes up with an idea and then gets confused about what needs to do next with this. It even gets tougher if there is a software product development idea. Nevertheless, why so? Idea can be anything, an innovation, a modification, a functional requirement and so on. These things are difficult to explain and you will need something feasible to show it to the investors / stakeholders. This is where you develop a prototype.

What is Software Product Prototyping?

The Software Prototyping refers to building software application prototypes that displays the functionality of the product under development, but may not actually hold the exact logic of the original software.

Software prototyping is becoming very popular as a software development model, as it enables to understand customer requirements at an early stage of development. It helps get valuable feedback from the customer and helps software designers and developers understand about what exactly is expected from the product under development.

Generally, pre-sales team with a little involvement of designers and developers work on prototyping. At this stage, client’s involvement is crucial as it is the decisive phase that defines success or failure of a product engineering project. Once you are through this and project is approved, this prototype is forwarded to product engineering Services Company that is responsible for developing the software product, if the company is not same as the one who developed prototype. This company takes prototype as a reference to develop final product.

Prototypes are usually scraped while final product is being developed and for its life-time it stay only as a reference, but some companies like Cygnet Infotech LLC develops re-usable prototypes. With re-usable, I mean the prototype is developed in a way that its HTML and code can be migrated to actual product to save resources, time and cost to re-develop the same thing in the actual product and thus it contributes to entire product engineering life cycle. This is one of the effective process modification that has enhanced the importance of prototyping in the modern days.

Hemang Rindani is an Inbound marketer at Cygnet Infotech who likes to write about Mobile Applications, Seo and Social Media.