Design · Product & Industrial Design
A topic within Product & Industrial Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.
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Design Prototyping Methods: State of the Art in Strategies, Techniques, and Guidelines
Bradley Camburn et al. · 2017
Surveys how physical and digital prototypes are actually built and used across product-design practice, and argues that prototyping strategy should…
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The Anatomy of Prototypes: Prototypes as Filters, Prototypes as Manifestations of Design Ideas
Youn-kyung Lim, Erik Stolterman & Josh Tenenberg · 2008
Argues that a prototype is never a neutral model of a finished design but a deliberate filter that exposes some of its dimensions and hides others,…
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Bradley Camburn et al.
Surveys how physical and digital prototypes are actually built and used across product-design practice, and argues that prototyping strategy should be chosen deliberately against the specific question a prototype is meant to answer, rather than by habit.
Youn-kyung Lim, Erik Stolterman & Josh Tenenberg
Argues that a prototype is never a neutral model of a finished design but a deliberate filter that exposes some of its dimensions and hides others, and that recognising this lets designers choose prototypes more purposefully.
Paul Gardien, Tom Djajadiningrat, Caroline Hummels & Aarnout Brombacher
Argues that cheap, fast digital-fabrication tools change more than the speed of prototyping: they shift when and how designers test ideas, and studios that do not adapt their process around the new tools lose the advantage the tools offer.