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Prototyping spaces

Prototyping spaces

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Prototyping spaces

- Products and services today often exist beyond a single screen or the edges of a physical product. They exist in spaces, in environments, in journeys over time. Journey mapping and low fidelity prototyping are great ways to make concepts tangible over time and in hand. But when you move beyond the scale of the hand, you need to start prototyping in spaces. Experiences that happen in spaces or over time are less tangible than an object you can hold, and people often struggle with the abstraction needed to understand an experience that will happen in these spaces. Prototyping experiences that happen over time is often done with a video or performance or other sketch techniques and makes these experiences tangible and allows the team and potential users to understand them on their own terms and articulate that understanding to others. For example, Frog worked with a startup rethinking how the old payphone infrastructure could be reimagined to meet the evolving needs of the urban…

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