Week 8, Session 1

17/9
In-class prototyping, round 2

The class began with a lecture about prototyping and how to do it. We then spent the rest of the class prototyping our idea, getting feedback, tweaking the prototype and repeating.

We gained a lot of feedback about our prototype as people seemed particularly interested in it.

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It was interesting seeing other people's ideas and the way they were approaching their briefs. I feel like it helped us step back and see the bigger picture a bit as we may have gotten a bit too deep and confused at this point.

We got a lot of good feedback and I think there is a lot that we need to work on with our current idea. We had a meeting yesterday and completely changed our project so the current idea is still quite raw. It was hugely useful testing the prototype because, even though it was still an extremely raw idea, we gained a whole lot of insights about elements that could affect the user that we hadn't even considered until now. We found the fresh look from people who had never seen the project before very helpful, I also feel like our prototyping/interviewing skills are improving.

Moving forward >>>

From here I think it is very important to start to visualise what the space could look like as that is a huge element of the final outcome. Now we know where we are in terms of the idea working and where to take it next so we should really look into the physical space for tomorrow so that we can get some feedback.