2016, Tim Vang, From Holy Grail to structured fail, Saxo Publish, →ISBN:
As long as the pretotype is sufficiently convincingly for people to genuinely believe that the product or service is there to be purchased, their decision is unaffected by how much you spend on developing the pretotype of your new idea.
2012, Julie Clow, The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All, →ISBN, page 185:
Google is also known for its prototyping culture, so much so that two Google engineers, Alberto Savoia and Patrick Copeland, coined the term pretotype to refer to the step before prototyping. They define pretotyping as “testing the initial appeal and actual usage of a potential new product by simulating its core experience with the smallest possible investment of time and money”.
2013, Denise Brosseau, Ready to Be a Thought Leader?, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 70:
In the technology arena, two concepts have helped product teams gain the necessary feedback before making a large investment: pretotyping and prototyping.You are probably familiar with prototyping—creating a working model of a proposed product quickly and inexpensively, to find out if there is a market need. A “pretotype” is the step before the prototype.
2013, Penny Pullan, James Archer, Business Analysis and Leadership: Influencing Change, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:
Pretotyping differs from prototyping in that the main objective of prototyping is to answer questions related to building the product: Can we build it? Will it work as expected? How much will it cost to build? The purpose of pretotyping is to answer questions about the product's appeal and usage: Would people want this product? Will they use it as expected? Will they continue to use it?
