| Activity 27 | Prototype to Learn or Decide |
Develop or use software so you can test a hypothesis, learn information needed to make a design decision, prove a quality attribute, or gain experience. Sometimes the only way to learn what you need to know is to do it yourself. This adage is especially true of technology and frameworks.
We prototype to learn when we need to figure out how to do something or how something works. We prototype to decide when we need to gather information that will help us choose between multiple options.
Building a prototype to decide is like running an experiment. The technology or pattern under investigation is hypothesized to solve a specific design problem. The purpose of the prototype is to test the hypothesis.
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