What do prototypes prototype Flashcards
What are the four categories of prototypes?
Role prototypes, Look and Feel prototypes, Integration prototypes, and Implementation prototypes
What can you say that prototypes are an important means of?
Exploring and expressing designs for interactive computer artifacts as well as examining design problems and evaluationg solutions.
Why is it critical to choose the right kind of prototype?
To build and communicate its limited purposes to its various audiences.
What is selecting the focus of a prototype the art of?
Identifying the most important open design solutions.
Once a prototype has been created, what are the distinct audiences that designers must discuss prototypes with?
The indented users of the artifact being designed, their design teams, and the supporting organizations that they work within.
Why is it good with a clear purpose for a prototype?
So we can better use prototypes to think and communicate about design.
In the model that represents a three-dimensional space that corresponds to important aspects of the design of an interactive artiface, what are the three dimensions?
Role, look and feel, and implementation.
What can the three-dimensional model help designers with when they are given a design problem?
They can use it to separate design issues into three classes of questions that frequently demand different approaches to prototyping.
For who should the purpose of any prototype be put in context for?
The designer and their audiences.
What are role prototypes built primarily to investigate?
Questions of what an artifact could do for a user, focusing on functionality with little attention to how it would look and feel or how it could be made to work.
What does the look and feel prototypes simulate?
The experience of an artifact and explore and demonstrate options for the visual and interactive design of the artifact.
What does integration prototypes represent?
The complete user experience of an artifact, bringing together its intended design, implementation, look and feel.
What does integrated prototypes help designers with?
To balance and resolve constraints arising in different design dimensions, verify the design’s completeness and coherence, and find synergy in the design of the integration itself.
What prototypes are the most difficult and time-consuming to build?
Integration prototypes.
What are some practical suggestions for designers?
Definish “prototype” broadly, building multiple prototypes, knowing your audience, and preparing your audience for viewing a prototype.
