Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) is a professional designation in property-casualty insurance and risk management.
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming. A User Experience Prototype captures enough aspects of the intended design that it can support user research. 2  A Visual Prototype captures the size and appearance, but not the functionality, of the intended design.
The type of prototype chosen should fit the specific needs of the project or tests -- especially since there is often a significant cost involved. . . . . Regardless of the method, prototypes are tools: for learning, for visualization and for design improvement. . . . Depending on the product, a prototype may or may not be necessary -- or perhaps more importantly, it may be that only portions of the design need prototyping.