Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. When developing industrial and consumer products, my team ...

Part 1 of this 3-part series described how a model-driven development process and virtual prototyping tools help address the challenges of implementing a DFSS methodology in a complex automotive ...

Prototyping is an exciting time in game development. During my time at Ustwo Games, we have prototyped everything from a castaway simulator to a village drama about the world of language. The most ...

My recent post about the dawn of the hardware startup generated some great reader emails. Many of the responses concerned rapid prototyping. The concept is no doubt familiar to readers of ZDNet, but ...

How do you close the gap between I wonder and I know? You make a prototype. A prototype is a tool that gives you a chance to investigate your ideas and explore what could, should, or would come next, ...

We've all had ideas that sound great in theory or look great on paper. It's only when we try to execute those ideas that we discover the limitations — or realize that the "can't lose idea" is actually ...