Prototyping as a powerful tool in a user centered innovation process
Tiago Barros, Paulo Melo · Latin American conference on Human-Computer Interaction · 2011
This short course aims to present prototyping techniques in the contexts of an user centered innovation process. Prototyping is a powerful tool to quickly communicate concepts, obtain feedback from end users and try ideas out. Thus, it has a key role in an innovation process. Apart from that, prototypes are a better option in comparison with more developed solutions due to the lower investment in time and money needed to create it, while still providing relevant information for the development cycle. Strongly based on practical activities, this short course will focus on how and with which purpose prototypes should be built. Additionally, participants will be invited to build various levels of prototypes (from paper to working prototypes) during the 8-hour course.