Co-design offers a way to make new possibilities by embracing the unknown together. Prototyping is the process of glimpsing the future. Understanding the different social domains and media of making becomes essential in co-design. Prototyping is well established in product design but is less developed at other levels of design, including for work roles and services. This chapter is therefore an attempt to explore this space, to see what prototyping means for co-designing complex systems.
The Idea
A prototype is defined as a “first or primitive form” of something (Oxford English Dictionary). Otto and Wood (2001) offer the description that it is “an artefact that approximates a feature (or multiple features) of a product, ...
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