Prototype Stage – Design Thinking Quiz

Select the most relevant prototyping method or concept for each scenario below.

1. A student team sketches interface screens on paper to simulate how a campus app might look and flow.
2. Instead of coding, the team creates clickable slides in PowerPoint to simulate the navigation of a new student portal.
3. Engineering students build a rough mock-up of an automatic dorm light switch using cardboard and sensors.
4. The design team invests time in creating a polished, fully functional mobile app before usability testing.
5. To explain a service concept, the team visually maps out steps of how a student requests maintenance help and how staff responds.
6. The team illustrates a student’s day from waking up to submitting an assignment, showing how their app fits into that story.
7. Business students use Lego figures and props to act out how a new café-ordering system would work in real life.
8. A new chatbot is tested by having a team member secretly type answers instead of an AI, to mimic the system’s future behavior.
9. Design students mix sketches, screenshots, and notes into a short video showing the proposed user journey for a course registration app.
10. The innovation club prints 3D parts to test the feel and usability of a redesigned library desk accessory.