Quotes About Prototyping

Building something by gradually refining a prototype is good for morale because it keeps you engaged.

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

meaning, creativity, flexibility, and a sort of rapid prototyping not just of jobs but of entire careers.

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

the value of prototyping: Potential users of ideas are more comfortable sharing their honest reactions when it's rough

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

While composite faces tend, by construction, to also be more symmetric, Langlois found that even after the effects of symmetry have been controlled, averageness was still judged to be attractive. These findings argue for a certain level of prototyping in the mind, since averageness might well be coupled with a prototypical template.

Make a sketch, construct a model, or assemble a prototype. Then another. And another. With each attempt, you'll reveal new possibilities for innovation. Your mind will talk to your hands, and your hands will talk to your mind. This dialogue is called generative thinking, and it happens only when you're making something. It's the active ingredient of design.