PROTOTYPING OUR CHEMICAL PRODUCT 🔨🔍
This week is the last week of ICPD tutorial lesson, before our presentation in week 17!
Dr Noel briefed the class on the CA2 report 2 assignment on design development, and went through the presentation guidelines for week 17 presentation.
Prototype:
Additionally, we focused on prototyping our chemical product.
What is Prototype?
- An essential part of product design that comes after ideation, where the team have created and selected ideas that can solve users' needs.
- Simple experimental model of the proposed product to check how well it matches what users went through the feedback to help guide development.
Why Prototype?
- Solid foundation from which to ideate towards improvements
- Giving all stakeholders a clear picture of the potential benefits, risks, costs associated with where a prototype might lead
- Adapt to changes early
- To avoid commitment to a single , falsely ideal version and later incurring heavy costs due to oversights.
- Show the design to users to gather feedback
- To help pinpoint which element/variants work best and whether an overhaul is required
- Get insights into less obvious areas of the users' world
- How the user might use the product in an unintended way
- Provide sense of ownership
- Fostering emotional investment in the product's ultimate success.
- Improve time-to-market
- Minimise the number of errors to correct before product is released
Therefore, to prototype our chemical product, we decided to use cardboard to build our first, low-fidelity prototype as it is a common and cheap material.
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