Reading Response : Prototype !

 I think we are practicing and experiencing prototypes everyday. I mean when we read books or watch movies, we practices future experience without notice.

For instance, Harry Porter novel describes a magical thing that people in newspaper, pictures move and says something in dynamic and after the movie shows how it will look like by producing a sample user experience(even though it is just acting). Finally, now in reality, real moving picture came out (digital)picture frame came out. Imagination what will be cool and able to bring convenience in the future, and its prototypes make the world change.

In specific, touching based devices are not much strange or unfamiliar because we get used to know how it will be used in the movies.

As a developer, making prototype is more focused on how it will process efficiently, correctly and speedily with concerning computer hardware. In specific, developers consider more about how computer might feel when they run a program with codes. Don’t they use too much storages and memories which can affect the computer gets to be slowed or too much complex code that is hard to be updated later (or etc.) whereas designers concern about users’ comforts (I guess because developer’s goal is making an abstract thing to a real artifact, but designer’s goal is presenting a thing that for the human – to sell the thing in proper usage). Their different approach may cause misunderstanding in communication between them. To reduce argument from misunderstanding, designers need to describe how the thing will work in a-z process and how it will effect to people’s life based on human-centered consideration like above explanation – science fiction movies or books describing well to think the algorithm

of how it can be built to a real artifact(products).

Making prototype is not just considering how much it will bring convenience in our lives or how much it will give great user experience or just how it can be processed to be produced in reality. According to reading, ” What do prototypes Prototype”, it emphasizes 3 key words (role, look and feel, implementation) and the author says the 3 key things should be integrated by interacting each of them. We are living in high-Tech world, which means not only development of technology is high enough to build our imagination to a real thing, but designers should consider user-centered design on user experience design not to be conquered by technology.