A real-life example of rapid prototyping

Great question!

Framer can act as a great first step of validation. It's the fastest way you can prototype an idea and use it in order to get a feeling of how it will look and work like.
In no case it can replace the validation you will get by building the real product using no-code or code tools.

The only reason to use Framer is reach as fast as possible, the point where you ask somebody to use your product and observe how they feel and what they think/

For example one of my 1-1 UX coaching clients https://www.wonder-path.com/ made some early prototypes on Framer, discussed with potential customers and now they are building the MVP using https://bubble.io/

The Framer prototype helped them to get some first insights and shape their UX strategy. They go to know their users more and it allowed them to build a MVP with better UX since they already have user insights.

Hope this helps! Feel free to reply with your thoughts, this is a really interesting topic that you brought into discussion 🙌

I am a really noob user of Framer haha - I just use the basics of prototyping :) Since you already work with Figma it shouldn't take more than 1-2 days to get used to it!

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