From the course: Design Thinking: Prototyping

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Generate ideas rapidly

Generate ideas rapidly

From the course: Design Thinking: Prototyping

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Generate ideas rapidly

- A common prototype is typically a usable product or testable experiment. Prototypes are a great way to communicate an idea as a working concept that people can react to. But to facilitate this, an idea must be generated, and a fully-formed concept must be created. So, usable or testable kinds always follow ideation and concept generation through activities like lateral thinking, line mapping, and concepting exercises. Those ideation and concepting activities are frequently solo efforts, after which you share your output with each other. Obviously some collaboration occurs during that sharing, as you see each other's ideas and ask questions, but innovation often comes from many ideas that are a shared effort. So, how do you generate ideas collaboratively, and enjoy the sensory impact prototyping provides? At frog, we use a combination of idea generating worksheets and paper prototypes, like this one, to allow us to see what it would be like if someone had options to scroll through on…

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