I would argue that to arrive at a working prototype from 'material neutral IxD concepts' one needs to apply and reflect upon increasing degrees of resolution.
Jumping from concept to implementation without checks & balances is a leap of faith a carries significant risk of failure Applying Resistance, slowing the design process down, allows the brain to digest problems, leading to associative thinking... "What scientists have only recently begun to realize is that people may do their best thinking when they are not concentrating on work at all. If you've ever had a great idea pop into your head while you were washing your car, walking your dog, or even napping, you already know what a team of Dutch psychologists revealed last month in the journal Science: The unconscious mind is a terrific solver of complex problems when the conscious mind is busy elsewhere or, perhaps better yet, not overtaxed at all. This brings us back to Archimedes, whose "Eureka!" moment in the bath -- or, to cite another example, Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity while loafing around under an apple tree -- was a classic example of a kind of creativity known as remote association, or associative thinking. As the name implies, it's a knack for seeing connections among things that appear on the surface to be unrelated to each other." I'd argue that sketching and creating throw away work is far, far more than merely proxies. They're mind hacks. Taking your time with a design, applying Resistance, enables the subconscious deep cogs of the mind to make connections & solutions not otherwise obvious to the filtered conscious perspective. thanks /pauric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32320 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
