makeweekend prototyping guide
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Learn different approaches you can apply to building prototypes for your product or service over a Makeweekend.TRANSCRIPT
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PROTOTYPING IS A CONTACT SPORT
The only way you can succeed is by immersing
yourself deep in the user context.
Dive!
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Build something
Prototyping
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Build to think Validate ideas and generate more of them.
Powerful communication tool.
Force us to think in more realistic terms about user interactions.
Rough, rapid, right Disposable. Build quickly and cheaply as possible.
Answer questions Essential to know which questions you’re trying to answer.
E.g. desirability, usefulness, usability, viability, or feasibility.
Prototype approaches
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Models A physical model takes an idea from 2 dimensions to 3 dimensions.
‚Low resolution‛ prototypes can be very useful.
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Prototype approaches
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Storyboards Imagine a complete user experience through a series of images and sketches.
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Prototype approaches
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Role play Discover the emotional experience of a product or service by acting out the process.
Equivalent of a model for service design – takes the experience from 2 dimensions to 3.
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Prototype approaches
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Diagrams Map out a whole space or process, how an experience changes over time.
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Gather feedback
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Take the idea out to people who might be using it Offer them several prototypes so they are more willing to criticise/compare.
Speak with… People from a group/area that’s different from the one where you did your initial
research (verification).
Some of the people you initially spoke with.
Variety of stakeholders: manufacturers, distributors, etc.
What are our blind spots?
Collecting feedback
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Thirds
Ideal people who are successful, adopt new technologies quickly
Extreme users who above average use, especially resistant, or exhibit
problematic behaviour
People who are in between or more ‘average’
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Collecting feedback
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The internet
Other teams
Your team
It matters because you can’t think of everything
Practice presenting the products to people and gathering
feedback Simplify/clarify the presentation.
Create a standard script to add consistency to your research results.
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