Your Million-Dollar Design Hack for Cost-Efficiency and Design Brilliance

When it comes to making mistakes, even technology giants can stumble in their pursuit of excellence. In 2010, Toyota, renowned for its engineering prowess, ended up recalling more than 9 million cars worldwide.

Alas, it wasn’t due to a mechanical issue but rather a technological tango that led to this downfall. The cars had a system error that caused an untimely lag in their anti-lock brake system.

Toyota had to allocate a whopping $3 billion to rectify this digital disruption, leaving their bank account trembling and their reputation shaken.

Studies suggest that system errors can have varying costs depending on when they are discovered:

• $100, if found in the requirements-gathering phase
• $1500, if found in the QA testing phase
• A whopping $10,000, if found in the production stage.

Rapid prototyping and validation can shield you from going into this financial abyss. It enables you to quickly create iterative versions of a product in order to gather feedback, test ideas, and refine the final design.

Investing in rapid prototyping upfront can save product leaders money in the long run. All this, just by spending a fraction of your development budget!

But, how exactly?

Unveil hidden flaws in your products and applications before they have a chance to sow chaos and drain your coffers.

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