Before Cardstack was Cardstack

I love prototypes. They’re unpolished, very imperfect, incomplete products and yet they’re fascinating. When looking at a product, it’s hard to image it was once just an idea and that this idea went through many, many iterations.

A final product is often the result of over a thousand small but important decisions and prototypes are snapshots of those decisive moments. They offer rare insights as to how product designers work, what kind of decisions they have to make and how they’re testing their ideas.

I was browsing some photos recently and came across these early prototypes of Cardstack so I thought I’d share them.

And of course the final product:

Originally published at i5co.com on September 8, 2015.