Students have been working on coming up with ideas and prototyping. They've been moving backwards and forwards between those, after getting feedback (testing). Student shave been busy brainstorming ideas for their living spaces units and sketching out initial ideas. Students have come up with all sorts of crazy and wonderful ideas to suit their clients needs. We started off by having them put their ideas on paper and most jumped straight to designing their space and the layout - if we did this again, we would have them start off with a brainstorm, before committing their ideas into a defined floor plan! However, they really impressed us with their designs. Students also had a lot of time to give feedback to each other. They worked with different students every time they received feedback, and used different methods, including the ladder of feedback.
The ideas included: a star shaped bed for the rap star, a house to suit the giant, with accommodations for human guests (a giant sofa and a mini sofa!), a tower with a telescope for the astronomy loving snow-queen, a giant entertainment system for the teenager vampire and more! We found that students were limiting themselves by committing to paper, so let them re-design their prototype with Lego, Pipe Cleaners, Paper Plates and more! I was super impressed with how different all their designs looked, as well as the symbolism and how they described the different parts of their spaces. Some of the students who are used to making everything very accurate and detailed initially found this a little hard, but once they realized that their prototypes could be super rough, they relaxed and had fun creating! Students were really 'in the zone' during these sessions - they showed an incredible amount of focus and were super engaged in the activity (who doesn't like making their ideas visible with Lego!) Our next step is students will be creating short videos to describe their client, their needs, their ideas and their prototype designs. Watch this space to see what they come up with!
20/4/2018 01:42:37 am
Paper-based prototyping is the fastest way to urge advice on your preparatory site data architecture, plan, and content. Paper prototypes are easy to make and must only paper, scissors and sticky notes. Use one piece of paper for each Web page you make and then have clients try them out in a convenience test. Clients show where they need to click to discover the information and you change the page to show that screen. The process helps you to gather feedback early in the design process, make changes quickly, and improve your starting plans. I like that you could actually enjoy creating prototypes even if they could be hard. I can imagine how it would be fun in a way that you will be creating your own product from an idea you have in mind. It is like actually having a dream and materialize them using prototypes especially when you plan to sell the product in the future. Comments are closed.
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