Paper Prototyping

Joel Gethin Lewis

Enquiry Weekend, Saturday 12th August 2017

Paper Prototyping lets you ignore budget, ability and experience to get to the core of an idea quickly.

N.B. Technology is NOT an idea.

I want to teach you my method:

  1. Find an interesting technology/method/approach/context.
  2. Apply it to an experience in the real world.
  3. Get the money/ability to make it happen.

2. is what you are going to learn today

I'll find you a technology and I'm afraid I don't have any budget. (-;

  1. Find an interesting technology/method/approach/context.
  2. Apply it to an experience in the real world.
  3. Get the money/ability to make it happen.

I want elevator pitches!

Technology usually flows "downhill":

Military -> Commercial -> Art -> The street.

This is changing - see the Singularity.

You are reality hackers!

Paper prototyping time!

Brief 1: Smile

and the whole world smiles with you...

Auto Smiley

Project: Auto Smiley by Theo Watson

The Brief:

You can detect smiles. What are you going to do with that?

Where could a smile be a useful switch?
What if many smiles were collected at once?

Top tips:

  1. Think of the setting
  2. Sum it up in a sentence
  3. Act the story
  4. Write down all your ideas first - but only pick one idea - be an editor
  5. Only one minute to present!

Demonstration

The Magic Hat.

Go!

Ten minutes thinking time, one minute presentation.

Brief 2: Augmented World

What would you add to reality?

WeARInMOMA

Sander Veenhof and Mark Skwarek AR show at MoMA without permission!

Project Tango from Google

First devices just on sale.

Hololens from Microsoft

Available now for £2,719.

Magic Leap

Coming soon...

Apple ARKit

Apple ARKit

Expect to see an explosion of these apps when iOS 11 is released in the coming months.

What would you add to the world?

What is sentience? What is consciousness? If it is not something that just happens in the human brain, what/where is it?

How might reimagining our relationship with nature change the way we approach our work, relationships, societies and selves?

How can we connect people who are already thinking some of these things, but feel like they‘re on their own?

Go!

Fifteen minutes thinking time, one minute presentation.

Thanks!

Website:
www.joelgethinlewis.com

Slides:
www.joelgethinlewis.com/presentations/Enquiry2017/

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