In this week’s class, Carolyn introduced prototyping, which is a stage to make our ideas real and test our ideas with users. It is the iterative generation of artefacts intended to answer questions that get my group closer to our final solution.
More specifically, prototyping could help us to make our ideas more tangible and perceptible. It could be anything such as a product, a service, and an experience.
There are three levels of a prototype: low fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high fidelity. In the design thinking process, designers always do Lo-Fi prototypes. Lo-Fi prototypes usually test fast and fail quickly, providing opportunities to designers to learn from mistakes before investing time, reputation, or money.
Lo-Fi prototypes can be anything to bring the idea to life and experiment, such as sketches, storyboards, and other mediums that can make designer’s ideas real.
My group had a meeting this week. We shared our proposals and prototyped 3 ideas on the Miro board.
By the way, this is our group happiness scale base on this week.
We will have a group meeting next week and continue to improve our prototypes. These prototypes will be shown in next week class.
