Prototyping User Experiences: Semester Review

Prototyping User Experiences with Robert Fabricant, Josh Musick, Clay Wiedemann, Jeff Hoefs

The students were asked to produce a video to reflect upon the use of prototypes in the design process. They talk about the project they did during the class, challenges they faced, and they give away some valuable tips and techniques.

• David Bellona : A Semester in Review

  Teleport!

• Allison Shaw : Allison and the Subwomps: Behinds the Prototypes

  This is a story of a group beyond their time.

• JoJo Glick : JoJo on Prototyping

  Three tips for prototyping time. Three jokes for break time.

• Michael Yap : On Prototyping

  To prototype is to ask, “what if?”

• Tina Ye : Prototypin’ the User Experience

  Starring Tina Ye…!

• Christopher Cannon : Prototyping Semester in Review

  A semester in review, or how I spent a semester making interactive subway maps.

• Catherine Young : Prototyping User Experiences

  To wrap up our class, Prototyping User Experiences, we were tasked to answer why prototyping was important in the design process and to give tips to the next batch of SVA MFA Interaction Design students who will be taking the same class next year. Samples of projects, such as production sketches for CabReel, and the Glo-Machine, a bioluminescence encyclopedia that utilizes RFID, Flash, Funnel, and clay were included.

  Kudos to our instructors: Jeff Hoefs, Josh Musick, Clay Wiedemann, and Robert Fabricant. Also to: the lab of Dr. AnnMarie Thomas at the University of St. Thomas for the protocol on squishy circuits, and Shawn and Yoshimi of Lullatone for the music.

• Kristin Breivik : Reflections on Prototyping

  1. What is your take on the purpose of prototyping in the design process?
  2. What is the one thing you found most challenging?
  3. What are 3 tips, tricks or techniques that you thought were valuable and why?

• Sera Koo : Things I Know Now, That I Wish I Knew Then

  A look back on our Prototyping User Experiences class.