Silicon Valley is a land of prototypes.2 There is disagreement on the claim since in tech industry, prototype is the core in figuring out the big startup idea. So what is prototype? Prototyping is an experimental process where design teams implement ideas into tangible forms from paper to digital.3
This might sound intuitive at first because it is about building the product that is useful and helpful for the user. However, we are unconsciously being trained by those application to interact with the application and device. For instance, Facebook effect on human interaction by Gwendolyn Seidman Ph.D. Gwendolyn lays out both pros and cons, but it sounds like humans are being wired to express more social media than in person.
In “Prototyping Social Interaction” made claim is that a prototype is not only a representation of a product or technology — such as a paper prototype, a software prototype, or a physical mock-up — but that it consists of both the representation and the social interaction the participants create together.1
The author is arguing that prototyping is no longer about the product features or behavior, but of a social prototyping for humans. It is a prototype for human interaction with the device. Another great example is the disinformation that recently happen on social media.5 This might be result of those cognitive studies and research that subtly prototype human interaction.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Kurvinen, Esko, Ilpo Koskinen, and Katja Battarbee. “Prototyping Social Interaction.” Design Issues 24, no. 3 (2008): 46-57. Accessed September 16, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25224182.
- Turner, Fred. “Prototype.” In Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture, edited by Peters Benjamin, 256-68. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Accessed September 16, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctvct0023.27.
Secondary sources
- What is prototyping? Lecture note by interaction-design https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/prototyping
- Gwendolyn Seidman Ph.D. How Facebook Affects Our Relationships
- The Dangerous Art Of Social Media And Messaging Manipulation by Perry Carpenter
