TOPIC 3 - What Does an Industrial Designer Do?
The creative process - how to manage it , methods, evaluation, testing and evaluation of the work done.
1. The Methods We Use
1.4. Prototype
Water Rescue Project – part of the presentation. Industrial design: Václav Svítil, Jan Vítek
We are entering a critical phase - verifying ideas. In industrial design, we will extensively use various mock-ups for verification. A rough prototype, made of polystyrene, for example, can give us useful feedback on how the product fits in one‘s hand, how stable it is, and so on.
In this phase, it is not necessary to create perfect models, but rather ones that are simple, cheap and fast to produce. It is important to produce them quickly. Even a relatively primitive model can give us a lot of information that cannot be revealed from a sketch or a virtual model.
Models can be made of foam materials, board materials, paper, and/or cardboard. The goal of this phase is not to win a design competition with the model, but to find out whether the thing works, and learn as much as possible about the designed product.