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not worry about the quality of the image; just use stick figures and callouts
to convey the happenings in the scene.

Once you have the future experience vision storyboard completed, stand
back and review it and see if it makes sense. Expect to adjust it as many
times as you deem necessary. You may be moving the scenes back and
forth, adding or deleting scenes, updating beginning and ending several
times before you have a version that you are comfortable with.

Point to Note
Up to this point you have not invested any time and resources in building
the actual solution. You have used no technology, no software, no hardware
or any other devices. What you have been able to do so far is write down
the future vision in the form of a story that conveys the essence of the solu-
tion. Doing that also helped you place yourself into your user’s shoes to see
whether the future experience vision would help solve the user’s problem
in a manner that is desirable and usable. It is important to highlight that this
approach helps you have a view into the future without too much invest-
ment. In the next step, we’ll explore other forms of prototyping to help you
move toward your vision in an agile manner.

4.3.3.1 Document Assumptions

After the session, the session lead should ask the team to write down all the
assumptions made and record those assumptions in assumptions template in
Chapter 6.

4.3.3.2 Review Prior Steps

Review the prior steps and adjust as needed with the consensus of the team.

4.4 Steps 9 and 10: Prototype and Test

4.4.1 Prototyping

I have already used the word prototype several times in this book. In this
step I’ll describe in more detail the essence of prototyping, why it is not
just important, but critical, and how to go about prototyping your ideas and
solutions.

So what is a prototype?