Design Work

Question 1

What is sketching?

Answer 1

• Meant to capture a wide range of ideas about a design space
• A tool designers use to share ideas with other designers
• Produced en-mass, disposable, easily modafiable

Question 2

What is prototyping?

Answer 2

• Represent firmer ideas that can be presented to stakeholders
• makes ideas shareable without designer present

Question 3

What is low-fidelity prototyping?

Answer 3

• Simple mockups of the proposed design

Examples include:
* Video prototyping
* The wizard of oz approach
* Paper prototyping

Question 4

What is high-fidelity prototyping?

Answer 4

• A more involved type of prototyping, but gains more authentic responses.
• Might involve creating functional material that may be used in the final product

Examples include:
Functional UI prototypes of software, apps, & websites
* Arduino prototyping for physical devices
* 3D printed prototypes for physical products

Question 5

What is video prototyping?
prons and cons

Answer 5

Creating videos of people interacting with your devices.

+ Easy for people to understand
+ Process is trivial with modern technology

– Expensive and time consuming
– Can’t respond to user feedback in a workshop

Question 6

What are 2 variants of video prototyping?

Answer 6

Invisible design - don’t show the product only people interacting with it.

Design theatre - actors act out interactions

Question 7

What is wizard of oz prototyping?
Pros and cons?

Answer 7

member of design team controls interface

+ Makes a system feel real and addresses the future user case dilemma
+ Can do things that are technically possible

• Expensive and time consuming
• Can’t respond to user feedback in the workshop

Question 8

What is paper prototyping?
Pros and cons?

Answer 8

Represent interface interactions quickly using office supplies.

+ Focus on specific features
+ Show flow-through system
+ Change in response to user feedback in workshop

• De-emphasis UX in favour of UI
• De-emphasis functionality