Group discussion and analysis from Reading Seminar 1

During the seminar we raised the question “At what stage/level of understanding could you start prototyping? What do you need to know about the target group before you start to work on the prototype? How much time should be spent on prototyping?” 

We all agreed on that it was important to understand the target group before starting the prototype. In our opinions, we need to have a good picture of the user's needs, requirements, aspirations and expectations. For example how they want to interact with the product and what kind of experiences they already have with similar products. We also thought that is important to know how technical capable the users are before deciding upon how advanced the product should be. 

When we discussed these questions further, we started to plan the process. We decided that we first need to identify one or two problem spaces of our target group at the museum we that we want to focus on. Then, we will need to brainstorm solutions before specifying what solutions we want to implement. The prototype needs to be tested by users and thoroughly evaluated,  and using the feedback, it can be further improved. These phases are important to the iterative process through which we constantly develop our prototype; starting out with creating low fidelity ones and gradually going more and more for a high fidelity prototype.