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Prototyping in Smart Product Design: Investigating Prototyping Tools to Support Communication of Interactive and Environmental Qualities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

J. Wang ,
C. Ranscombe  and
B. Eisenbart
J. Wang*
Affiliation:
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
C. Ranscombe
Affiliation:
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
B. Eisenbart
Affiliation:
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
*
jingwang@swin.edu.au

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The increasing availability of smart products creates a more pronounced need for designers to prototype and communicate interactive and environmental qualities of product during their design process. This paper explores which elements of User journey, Storyboards and Wireframes contribute to communicating these qualities, and how they might integrate with sketching. Results show depictions of user and temporal elements alongside low fidelity sketches are deemed most important. Our findings form the basis to propose and subsequently test combined prototyping approaches in future research.

Keywords

smart product designprototypingcommunicationdesign activitiesprototyping tools

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 2: DESIGN2022 , May 2022 , pp. 2243 - 2252
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