Origami

In todays lecture we looked at paper engineering and origami. We were showed tutorials of how to make different origami animals/objects. This lecture help us to understand the different add ons which books can include and for me it emphasised how much better physical books were to online books. 

Below are my attempts at some origami.

^crown

^bear

After having a go at some origami we looked at users testing and just how important it is. Before this lecture i didn't think user testing was as important as it is. I knew it had its place and that it was helpful to get feedback from your target audience but after this lecture it really ingrained into me that it had so much positives. From a business point of view i thought it wouldn't be economically sound to churn out loads of prototypes to get user tested but we were shown some stats and a lot of companies made money by getting things user tested and then were able to alter things based on the feedback. This meant the product  was more successful. If they hadn't have had user testing then they wouldn't have got the feedback and therefore the product wouldn't have been a success. 

As a student it isn't feasible to go out with prototypes and get users feedback but it is feasible to make one prototype and a bunch of questionnaires to go along with it. Questionnaires are the most statistically reliable and mot cost effective way of getting user feedback and something i will definitely be doing with my designs.