Prototyping prototyping

Prototyping is just asking a question. Most people think of prototyping as just the physical look, but it’s better to break down your prototypes into different categories. You can have one set of prototypes that focuses on interaction, one that experiments with implementation, one that looks at the form and feel.

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

Things are becoming less tangible and more screen-based. Today, most “innovation” looks like adding a screen to something that functioned perfectly fine without one for decades, like refrigerators. As a side note, these “innovations” just make things harder to fix when they break without adding much functionality. The author of this article discusses a future that is more tangible because what do hands do? They feel things. We get so much feedback from everything we touch, and that should be taken into consideration as we design for the future. Our current technology and the innovation for the foreseeable future involves a single finger to interact, when we should be taking the hands, arms, and rest of the body into consideration.