PM Shares Tips to Enhance Prototype Design Efficiency

Are you spending excessive time on tedious prototyping work? Burning midnight oil to create barely satisfactory mockups? The struggle ends today. We reveal exclusive prototyping acceleration techniques used by top product managers that can help you achieve double efficiency.

Prototypes serve as critical communication bridges between product managers, developers, and QA teams. Creating clear, effective prototypes is essential. How can professionals optimize both speed and quality in prototype creation? From requirement organization to annotation, every step matters. This article focuses on two key phases: prototype construction and specification annotation.

1. Global Specifications: The Ultimate Efficiency Solution

Have you encountered situations where you repeatedly write identical annotations across multiple pages? Common examples include "network error," "loading failure," or "no data available." Making subsequent changes requires tedious page-by-page modifications that are time-consuming and prone to oversight. Global specifications solve these problems permanently.

Think of global specifications as a "documentation warehouse" that centrally manages all reusable annotations. Write once, reference everywhere. This approach simplifies prototype documentation, reduces communication costs, ensures requirement consistency, and eliminates redundant work.

Global specifications fall into two categories:

• Universal Specifications: Applicable to most products and pages, including page states, loading statuses, standard gestures, popup overlays, etc.
• Business Specifications: Highly specific to particular business logic, such as time display rules or nickname length restrictions. These vary significantly across different business domains.

Example Implementations:

1. Universal Specifications