Marion Buchenau and Jane Fulton Suri, Experince prototyping .

We have discussed this paper in our class Current issues in interaction design.

“Prototypes” are representation of a design made before final artifacts exists. prototypes created to inform both design process and design decisions. They range from sketches and different kind of models at various levels “looks like”, “Behave likes” and “works like” to explore and communicate proposition about design and its context.

prototyping is a key activity within the design of interactive systems.

“Experience Prototyping” define as to emphasize the experiential aspect of whatever representation are needed to successfully (re)live or convey and experience with a product, space or system.

Operation definition can say an Experience prototype is any kind of representation, in any medium, that is design to unerstand, explore or communicate what it might be like to engage with the product, space or systems we are desiging. techniques can be storyboards, scenarios, sketches, video etc.

experience prototyping is valuable, Understanding existing user experiences and context, Exploring and evaluating design ideas, Communicating ideas to an audience.

The main purpose of Experience prototyping is by doing this activety it is in facilitating the exploration of possible solutions and directing the design team towards a more informed develpment of the user experience and the tangible componets which create it. through EP we are  able to evaluate a variety of ideas, by ourselves, with design colleagues, users or clients and through successive iterations mold the user experience.

in this session we have talked about the ROV pilot Experience,controller for an immersive environment, Experiencing an Airplane Interior etc.

This discussions was very helpful for our development project when we were doing our prototypes.