Prototyping is a collaborative, improvisational process.
Jake Barton, founder and president of New York design firm, Local Projects, opened the two day Design at Scale conference, organized by the DMI (and of which I was co-chair.) He showed a number of the firm’s projects, including Change By Us, an idea-sharing/matching initiative launched in New York and which has since spun out to Seattle and Philadelphia„ and the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a mobile laboratory intended to “inspire innovative ideas for urban life.” He went into detail about the firm’s process, of which prototyping plays a huge part. I particularly liked his description of the design of client feedback sessions, in which the clients are deliberately left to experience the prototype on their own terms. Any hint of attempting to steer them in a particular direction, said Barton, and the dynamic can turn nasty in an instant. For more of Local Projects’ process and design approach, see also Storyteller, a feature I wrote recently for Creative Review magazine. (via thoughtyoushouldseethis)
This is a great quote and it reminds me of community efforts to prototype, like OpenIDEO and COMMON. Heck, I would consider OccupyWallstreet as an example.
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