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Prototyping the Real World
in a Virtual Environment
It will never cease to be a living blueprint of the future, where people actually live a life they can’t nd
anywhere else in the world.
—Walt Disney speaking about EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow)
13.1 PROTOTYPING AND WORKFLOW: WHEREANDHOW
DO VIRTUAL WORLDS FIT IN?
How do you get from inspiration to a real life prototype? Let’s look at the ow of design ideation. As you
can see in Figure13.1, each step of a design process ows into the next, and concepts from some steps may
possibly ow into noncontiguous steps as well. Design thinking is not usually a linear process; ...