Designing Products of the Future
Zero to One. Prototype Your Artifact
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
About the video: Zero to One. Prototype Your Artifact
Overview
“Now we're planning on how to build the object we see in the future. What are the materials and tools you need, and what are the steps you take to build it? This lesson is part sci fi prop making, part engineering, and all hands-on.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Tham addresses the topic: Zero to One. Prototype Your Artifact, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing Products of the Future. Learn to research and design dynamic and problem-solving products for a better future.
Partial transcription of the video
“So now you have created your features list and your mood board. You're ready to create your prototype for your future artifact. A prototype is an early model to prove a specific concept or to communicate a functionality of your artifact. There are two types of prototype. The first one is an experiential prototype and the second one is a functional prototype. Now, an experiential prototype is when you recreate a particular experience so that your user can give you feedback of that particular experience. A simple experiential prototype is, say, you're building an app. Well, it could be as sim...”
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Course summary for: Designing Products of the Future
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Design, Design Management, Industrial Design, Information Design, Product Design

Cecilia Tham
A course by Cecilia Tham
As an industry leader, Cecilia MoSze Tham is founder and director of Futurity Studio, an innovative future-focused research and design studio. She was a Senior Social Technologist at Alpha Telefonica. She has founded multiple companies such as MOB: Makers of Barcelona; FabCafe, a café that combines technology, workshops, and coffee; and Allwomen.tech, the first A.I. training campus for women.
Cecilia is the recipient of numerous awards such as the Faculty Design Award by Harvard University and Creative Entrepreneur of the Year by Creative Net. Cecilia has given talks at World Mobile Congress, Smart City Expo, IAM Fest, SHIFT Open FAD, and 4YFN, as well as four TEDx talks. She was a regular contributor to the newspaper L’Econòmic and La Roca Gallery. Cecilia participated at the Singularity University Global Solution Program for climate change at NASA Ames and she is currently an advisor for United Nation World Food Program X.
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