OK, what’s a “prototype”?

     You can read about the original Potemkin village story in Wikipedia. The term has come to mean a fake facade with nothing behind it.

     There are tools for building Potemkin-village user interfaces, sometimes called “wireframes”. I’m going to use that term, too. In fact I’m going to show you building a prototype out from a wireframe. But it’s going to be a functioning wireframe that becomes a  prototype.

A Prototype is NOT … A Potemkin Village