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Join us for Prototyping March

“They slow us down to speed us up. By taking the time to prototype our ideas, we avoid costly mistakes such as becoming too complex too early and sticking with a weak idea for too long.”

— Tim Brown, CEO & President of IDEO

 

To register: https://atdc.org/event/prototyping-month-questions-and-preparation/2022-03-02/

Prototyping is an experimental process for giving ideas tangible form for use in customer discovery and testing technical feasibility.  Prototyping means taking your idea, making it tangible, taking the tangible form of your idea, testing it, learning from those tests and then revising the product or service, creating a new prototype and testing it again – All in the interest of making a better product in the customer’s opinion. Prototyping is a tool for making mistakes at low cost per mistake, learning and growing from those mistakes, instead of making costly errors further into the product development process or after the product is market.

Too many companies spend a lot of time and money on their prototypes without really understanding the goal of having a prototype (yes, a cool prototype helps with investors, but it can help a lot more if you have the research from previous prototypes to show why you built your product the way you built it).

Learn to make prototyping a core skill at your company. Have the skills you need to succeed more quickly, at lower cost, and stay successful! Join us for Prototyping March, a month dedicated to building prototypes, testing, learning, iterating, and doing it all again.

We will have discussions and roundtables on what Prototyping is, prototyping tools, materials, and methods, the questions to ask with your prototype, and because this month is sponsored by the 5G Connected Future Incubator, we will have a demonstration of how to connect a device to the 5G network so that you can send and receive data!

To see the calendar of Prototype March events go to: https://atdc.org/community/

 

Go to these links to readings and videos to help you prepare for Prototype March:

Note that these are suggestions of good information and not intended as endorsements

 

First two events are open to the public  https://atdc.org/community/

  • 3/2: Roundtable: Prototyping questions and preparing for Prototyping Month. 9 am. Learn about Prototyping month, how you can participate. Ideas for getting the most out of prototyping. How to develop the questions that you want to answer with your prototype.
  • 3/9: Prototype to Production and Overcoming Challenges Along the Way – Prototype March Kick-off presentation

The skills required to develop a prototype for any product, whether it be hardware, software, biomedical device, or complex tool, are usually much different than the skills needed to make a robust, dependable, low-cost, production version of that prototype. The session will explore some of the pitfalls to avoid and some of the new skills that your company will need to attain to produce your technology at scale.

    • Explore existing solutions
    • Ideate different approaches
    • Map future state customer journey
    • Prototype and test selected concepts with customers

 

Open to ATDC members https://atdc.org/community/

  • 3/9: Bob Office hours for Prototyping discussions, help, support.  noon-5
  • 3/10: Roundtable: Questions to ask for Prototyping. A follow-up with more on the 3/2 roundtable, but no problem if you missed 3/2. Join us anyway. We will go into this often ignored detail about building prototypes; what question(s) are you trying to answer with this prototype?
  • 3/14 11 am. How to connect to 5G demonstration: Learn how to connect a device to the 5G T-Mobile network.
  • 3/15 Intro to tools for prototyping and small batch builds. Jason Bateham of Quick Innovative Solutions will tell you about the latest tools, materials, and processes
  • 3/15 Bob Office hours for Prototyping noon-5
  • 3/15 Curiosity Lab Work Shop open 9-5 for Prototyping for working on your prototyping. Contact Bob Siegel to register: Robert.siegel@atdc.org Space is limited so signup now.
  • 3/16 Curiosity Lab Work Shop open 9-5 for Prototyping for working on your prototyping. Contact Bob Siegel to register: Robert.siegel@atdc.org Space is limited so signup now.
  • 3/17: Curiosity Lab Work Shop open 9-5 for Prototyping for working on your prototyping. Contact Bob Siegel to register: Robert.siegel@atdc.org Space is limited so signup now.
  • 3/22: Curiosity Lab Work Shop open 9-5 for Prototyping for working on your prototyping. Contact Bob Siegel to register: Robert.siegel@atdc.org Space is limited so signup now.
  • 3/23: Curiosity Lab Work Shop open 9-5 for Prototyping for working on your prototyping. Contact Bob Siegel to register: Robert.siegel@atdc.org Space is limited so signup now.
  • 3/24: Curiosity Lab Work Shop open 9-5 for Prototyping for working on your prototyping. Contact Bob Siegel to register: Robert.siegel@atdc.org Space is limited so signup now.