原型设计实战：数字与物理产品的创新方法

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"Prototyping for Designers--2017" 本书《Prototyping for Designers》由Kathryn McElroy撰写，Allan Chochinov作序，旨在帮助设计师们掌握物理产品和数字产品的原型设计技巧。书中深入探讨了不同媒介下的原型制作最佳实践，以及如何选择合适的原型软件或组件。同时，它还介绍了电子原型制作的基础知识和入门资源，让读者能够编写基本的伪代码并将其转化为适用于Arduino的可执行代码。在《Prototyping for Designers》中，作者强调了原型设计对于设计师的重要性，它不仅适用于发现用户需求的早期阶段，也适用于测试更成熟的想法。书中的内容覆盖了原型制作的各个方面，不仅是设计师的实用参考书籍，也适合产品经理和推动组织内设计思维的设计倡导者阅读。通过阅读本书，读者将了解物理产品与数字产品原型设计之间的相似性和差异性，掌握不同原型所需的不同精度水平。此外，你将学习到如何根据项目需求选择适合的原型制作工具，如草图、模型制作工具，甚至是专门的原型设计软件，例如Sketch、Figma、InVision等。书中还会介绍基本的电子原型制作基础知识，包括电路设计、传感器应用和微控制器（如Arduino）的编程。读者将学会如何用简单的伪代码表达设计思路，并将其转换为能够控制硬件的代码，这对于物联网(IoT)产品和交互式设计特别有用。最后，书中的内容还包括如何进行用户测试，以从原型中获取有价值的用户反馈。通过用户测试，设计师可以验证设计假设，识别潜在问题，并据此迭代改进产品设计。这一过程对于确保最终产品的用户友好性和市场适应性至关重要。《Prototyping for Designers》是一本全面而实用的指南，无论你是初入设计领域的新人，还是希望深化技能的专业设计师，都能从中受益匪浅，提升在物理和数字产品设计中的原型制作能力。

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Preface

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There seem to be hundreds of new smart objects and apps reaching

the market every day. With all of this competition, how do you know

that your idea will be inﬂuential and that people will buy it? If you’re

familiar with business, you’ve done some market research and found

a viable sector. Or you’re working with a team that has an idea and is

rushing toward a minimum viable product (MVP). But how can you

truly know that your ideal customer will beneﬁt from your new prod-

uct or app? And how do you know that your team is pursuing the right

solution?

Prototyping and user testing is the best way to make valuable prod-

ucts that are impactful for your users. By creating incrementally bet-

ter prototypes throughout your process, you can get valuable feedback

to improve your product. Instead of merely trusting your gut with its

assumptions and hidden biases, you can engage with real people to

observe how they interact with your prototypes. Through this direct

interaction, you’ll understand exactly where your users get stuck, what

they have trouble grasping, and their visceral reaction to the entire

experience. Prototyping is a key to developing a good experience that

meets the needs of the end user.

The goal of this book is to give you a foundational education in the

topic, providing current examples of companies that prototype, along

with best practices and tried-and-true processes. I want to inspire you

not only to prototype, but to develop a habit of prototyping. You’ll learn

how to test your ideas in many ways and gain useful insights to direct

you forward. I encourage you to build a culture of prototyping within

your team and company. This culture will energize your team to seek

feedback in all formats and to help peers give one another supportive,

constructive feedback to improve their ideas.

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PREFACE

It takes time and effort to learn how to prototype, and nothing will

improve your skill more than jumping straight in and making proto-

types of your work. This book will help take some of the guesswork out

of your initial prototypes, and empower you to ﬁnd new ways of validat-

ing assumptions and ideas.

Why I Wrote This Book

When I started learning product design, I mostly taught myself how to

prototype. There wasn’t an individual book or obvious online resources

to help, just a lot of online tutorials and examples. What I discovered

through the limited support I found was that trying, building, and

learning was the best way to test ideas. I stumbled through learning by

making, slowly creating iterative design updates through getting feed-

back. This process was painful at times, and I learned a lot by failing.

Some of my failures include prototypes that broke before I could test

them, or broke during a testing session with users. From those fail-

ures, I learned how robust I needed to make wearable prototypes to

withstand testing with real people. Although I treated the prototype

gingerly, other people interacted with it more roughly, like they would

a real product instead of a hobbled-together early version. For my thesis

project, I had to determine which parts of my product idea I needed to

build and test, and I made a few versions that weren’t helpful in testing

early on. Then I ﬁgured out that I needed to decide on the assumption

I was testing before I made the prototype, to ensure that it would be

appropriate and useful.

I want this book to take out some of the hard work of learning proto-

typing best practices, and inspire you to take action as soon as you have

an idea, to try it and test it with real users. There’s no substitute for

learning by doing, so I’ll guide you with insightful best practices and

tips, along with many examples of prototypes along the way to help you

become comfortable with making prototypes.

You will learn how to prototype and test ideas for physical and digital

products. The term physical product can cover a huge expanse of prod-

uct types, but for the purpose of this book I’m focusing on personal

electronics with an emphasis on physical computing. Physical comput-

ing means “building interactive physical systems by the use of soft-

ware and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world.”

This includes electronics with sensor inputs and some sort of output,

PREFACE

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Who Should Read This Book

The ideal reader of this book is someone who’s eager to improve their

design process. It’s geared toward beginning and intermediate design-

ers, and is especially relevant for readers who are shifting careers into

product design (either physical or software). However, it applies to

many other people.

You might have a DIY project that you think is great, but want to ﬁnd a

way to test it before you invest too much time or money into scaling or

selling it. You might be a product designer who knows that you should

prototype, but you don’t know how to incorporate it into your current

workﬂow or Agile team. You could be interested in user testing and

backing up your design decisions with data in order to gain inﬂuence

with your business stakeholders.

Prototyping is a formalized version of continual learning. Readers with

an open mind, and the desire to improve their skill and craft, will bene-

ﬁt the most from this book. I suggest you be as open to improving your-

self as you are with improving your product experience.

This book will help you build broad, actionable skills, but it will not

include how-tos on speciﬁc software. If you’re looking for tutorials,

there are plenty of online videos with speciﬁc lessons on new software.

Software comes and goes, and as soon as a book is printed, it’s imme-

diately out of date! This book will give you a good foundation in pro-

totyping so that you’ll feel comfortable applying it to whichever soft-

ware you’re most comfortable using. Whether that’s Adobe Illustrator

or Photoshop, Sketch, InVision, or Axure, you’ll leave this book with

the ability to think through your idea in a way that you can successfully

prototype.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 establishes what prototypes are, with examples from differ-

ent industries. I discuss product design, including the Agile project

management methodology.

Chapter 2 digs into why we prototype. It’s not only to test ideas—there

are three other major reasons to create prototypes: to understand, to

communicate, and to advocate. I’ll explain what makes each reason dif-

ferent, and the impact that prototyping has on each.

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