Prototyping is a crucial stage in product development, allowing teams to test and validate ideas quickly before committing to a full-scale build, thereby minimizing technical debt and refining design and functionality with early user feedback. The text outlines the challenges of prototyping, such as getting bogged down in high-fidelity design too soon and not obtaining user feedback early enough, and suggests that using advanced, no-code prototyping tools can alleviate these issues by speeding up the process and facilitating better communication of ideas. It highlights several top prototyping tools for 2024, including Bubble, Figma, Softr, Sketch, Proto.io, and Marvel, each with unique strengths such as seamless prototype-to-product development, design-first approaches, and rapid prototyping capabilities. For example, Bubble allows for a prototype to be developed and directly launched as a functional web application, providing real user interaction and feedback opportunities. Ultimately, the choice of tool should be guided by the specific needs of the team, the level of customization required, and the balance between low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototyping, with the aim of creating interactive prototypes that can evolve into fully functional products.