Prompt
Now that we've brainstormed and sketched and prototyped and FINALLY landed on a solid idea, it's time to delve into the realm of iterative design.
Iterative design is when you take your initial idea, get feedback, and improve upon that idea and your prototype in a cycle that can happen an infinite number of times (until you hit your deadline, of course!)
For this project, we will be doing two iterations that focus on FORM and FUNCTION.
How can you improve the FORM of your design?
- Can you add another level of elegance, refinement, or more creativity to your design?
- Does the shape of each component of your design have anything to do with its function or use?
- If your object is interactive, how can you invite users in using only the visual nature of your design?
Important: Make sure you really examine the full range of materials available to you in this studio and make thoughtful choices about which materials you're using and why.
How can you improve the FUNCTION of your design?
- Does it move in the way you want it to?
- Does your prototype work the way you want it to? What are some mechanical kinks that you need to work out?
About interactivity...
The key element of interactivity is taking an input and converting it to an output. Luckily, there are a lot of simple ways to add interactivity to projects. Think about how you might include interactivity in your more advanced iterations.
Deliverable
- Improve the form and function of your project through iterative design
- Take high-quality pictures of the finished prototype.
- Post your documentation in the Responses tab above.