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Prototyping

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/// 1.The act of creating real-world models of an idea or vision /// 2. The process of iterative experimentation.

What We Can Learn from Babies: Experimentation, Failure & Creative Genius

Babies don't get fazed by failure - so why should we? A look at how child's play super-charges our creativity and helps new ideas thrive.
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Minimaforms: Ideas Must Find Their Form

Hybrid architecture and design studio Minimaforms talks about the necessities for making ideas manifest: lots of prototyping and patience.
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On Prototyping: The Simplest Solution Never Comes First

Serious people don’t do napkin drawings. The designers of Herman Miller's new Setu chair, Studio 7.5, on rigorous prototyping and long lunches.
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Philippe Malouin: The Urgent Designer

Computers be damned. Break-out industrial designer Philippe Malouin speaks on his love model-making and relentless, real-world experimentation.
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