“Including quick prototyping in the design process will not only help communicate your ideas but allow you to harness one of the virtues of creating something truly innovative: failure.”
“In tandem with design explorations, rapid prototyping is a cyclical and iterative process. The basic cycle allows for testing and refining of the product or service early and often: ideate, prototype, test, analyze, refine, and repeat. The key understanding in adapting a design process to an iterative one is that failure must be expected and embraced. This process also creates opportunity to remedy those failures early on -- and more efficiently.”They both explain the virtues of testing-out interactive design ideas early on and throughout the design process. Through the development of basic prototypes tested on potential users, ideas can be tested, evaluated and re-iterated, encouraging the development of stronger solutions.
I definitely want this system of continuous prototyping and iteration of ideas to be part of my own design practice so that I can develop better solutions to the problems I face. I also feel this system will help me overcome my reluctancy to make decisions and try-out my ideas early on in the design process without worrying about failure, as Thomas Edison said:
“I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”Failure is something I have to embrace to bring my solutions to new heights.
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