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
1.5. Testing
Water Rescue Project – part of the presentation. Jan Vítek is testing a prototype.
Ideally, we have created a prototype and are going to test it! We are going to show it to potential customers. We can create a test polygon, test the existing product and our new design simultaneously, and try to obtain positive references.
Testing may not always bring a positive result. Then it is necessary to return to the beginning and go through the whole process again. Even a bad result is useful because we were able to detect a mistake at an early stage of the design. A polystyrene model made at a cost of several hours of work and a few hundred crowns can save us bigger costs in the future. For testing, we can also use virtual reality and repeat the cycle with a better model afterwards.
If testing brings a positive result, we can continue to work on the product. We can develop it in more detail, create sophisticated 3D models, and invest time in material testing. Then we can repeat the whole cycle with a more sophisticated model.