The art of prototyping

XIII.1 January + February 2006
Page: 21
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Prototyping with junk


Authors:
Nancy Frishberg

Interaction designers typically work with digital prototyping tools that have 2D (or at best 2.5D) visualization capability, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio and even Powerpoint. Carolyn Synder's book Paper Prototyping encourages interaction designers, irrespective of artistic training or confidence in sketching, to use paper and markers to mock up screens [1]. She promotes these artifacts for their speed, low cost, ability to make ideas tangible, and lets users respond to them. Industrial designers often make rough 3D models simply to play out ideas in low-cost but physically tangible form. Likewise, three-dimensional modeling is employed by architects, structural engineers, and industrial…




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