Prototyping Canvas

What is Prototyping Canvas?
Prototyping Canvas is a strategic prototyping template that guides users to answer critical assumptions or questions.
Why Prototyping Canvas?
Prototyping Canvas effectively guides designers through prototyping processes, facilitates a common prototyping language amongst team members.
It encourages intentional prototyping practice, which should ultimately reduce resources and improve design outcomes.
Procedure
Best Practices
Demo Video
This video gives you a walk-through on how to do an Prototyping Canvas, through a worked example of a Autonomous Vehicle Design Challenge.


Examples
Here are examples of the Prototyping Canvas for solving a problem posed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and solved by two design teams (Lauff, Menold, and Small, 2016). The problem to solve is: How might we increase social-emotional competencies (SEC) in young children? The teams engaged in the human-centered design process to solve these problems.
References
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Lauff, C., Menold, J., Wood, K., 2019 [forthcoming, in review]. Prototyping Canvas: Design Tool for Planning for Purposeful Prototypes. International Conference on Engineering Design. August 4-8. Delft, Netherlands.
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Teo, K., Wee, Y., Swee, A., Altybayeva, A., Gopal, M., Kamiso, N., Foo, D., Lauff, C., Wood, K.L., “Design Innovation (DI) Learning Modules,” SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC), SUTD, Singapore, idc.sutd.edu.sg, 2018.
Additional Resources on Prototyping
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TED Ed Lesson by Tom Chi on Rapid Prototyping Google Glass, https://ed.ted.com/lessons/rapid-prototyping-google-glass-tom-chi
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IDEO Zine: “You can prototype anything”, to get in the mindset that you truly can prototype anything, even a restaurant
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Pretotype It: free e-book by Alberto Savoia, “make sure you are building the right ‘it’, before you build it right”, introducing idea of ‘pretotypes’ as early exploratory prototypes
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Design Thinking: Prototyping short online course by Randall Elliot of frog design through Lynda platform
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ACUMEN+ IDEO short online free course on Human Centered Design 201: Prototyping