B7- Crystallizing, designing & prototyping / Part two

Phase C- Prototyping: Explore prototyping scenarios  

At this phase we put our ideas and plans into action and started prototyping. The process was going smooth and fine, as we all had a clear same understanding of the final goal. Just the idea about collages (comparing earth with other planets, in terms of marketing competitors) was changed more or less to advertisement posters. Why? What was wrong? As we tried one collage but it was not in coherence with other ideas, and also I personally check it with a friend in another KCT; in order to get some new inputs, so at the end we changed it more to "posters" than "collages".

My personal feedbacks from the prototyping process:

The business plan idea was going good; it was making sense for all of us. It was making the project look more feasible and real. Furthermore, it was in alignment with the webpage prototype, it was kind of providing us with the final ideas of how the final prototype must looks like.

Also I think that our three prototypes would enable better communication between the designers and final users. For examples the collages/advertisement posters are based on environmental issues and how management techniques that our company would offer (which are mentioned in the business plan) would deal with them.

Difficulties:

As it was the first time for all of the group members to make a prototype for not an automobile project for example, it was a bit different. It was so interesting to go through the process and see how as it was developing from the first abstract idea and getting more and more complete.

Furthermore, in terms of difficulties it is worth to mention that a degree of skill and experience was inevitably necessary to be able to use the prototype as an efficient tool. The other factor could be time limitations, a perfect prototype would come up when the appropriate amount of time is dedicated to it. In our case the group faced time pressures. But in general the group was satisfied with the ideas, process and the prototypes.  

To sum up this part I would like to say thanks for the useful prototypes ideas that were provided from the professors on the homepage.

M.M