Readings Week Two

Until I now I didn’t realize how important it is to do mock ups of your work. My first realization of this was during bootcamp when I had to build a new website. When building my first artist portfolio I kind of just wingged it and went with the flow. It was so much easier the second time when I had already prepared all of the elements and just had to input everything into the website.

Mock ups save time and money, you are able to test the design and functions of the object before building it. The key point for most design is human usability, it makes sense to test it out before executing the final product. A phrase I have heard a lot while being at Parsons is “It’s better to fail then to succeed because you learn more when you fail.”

I can understand there being problems with prototyping especially with technology because you aren’t able to get the full interaction, only the physical interaction. You are able to demonstrate a story board of what the functions may be but in order to get a full understanding you will have to begin creating the software.

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