Week 12

Exercise:

Revisit Definition of a prototype:

How has your understanding of prototyping changed since week 1:

My understanding of prototyping has changed somewhat since week 1. My overall understanding of prototyping remains the same: that prototypes are creations designed to rapidly evaluate the viability of concepts, either in small parts or as a whole. I have gained a better understanding of the various ways prototyping can be gone about, and specifically which types of prototypes and prototype evaluations work for specific goals.

What would you change about your initial description:

I would not change a great deal of my initial description of prototyping. I would mostly emphasise more greatly the importance of the testers in the prototype, as well as the expectations of the type of feedback expected from a prototype and how that informs the decisions made in creating the prototype.

How is that related to your experiences:

Over the course of all of my prototypes, my experience was that I often forgot to consider what I would be asking of my testers until after I had created my prototype. Looking back on this decision now, I notice that this led to me deciding what I was testing based on what I had made, rather than making something to allow me to test specific things. In the future, I would come up with my testing methods and goals concretely before designing my prototype.