{"id":1441,"date":"2013-03-01T22:44:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T06:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sdgc\/cgi-bin\/ycisl\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2013-03-01T22:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T06:44:23","slug":"thoughts-on-rapid-prototyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts: On [Rapid] Prototyping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you have an idea pop in your head, rapid prototyping is a good way of getting that idea into an object you can toss around. It doesn&#8217;t have to be fully functional &#8211; even barely functional may be good enough. This note is about two stories regarding prototyping (rapid, in that the objects were hardly functional and focused on look and feel).<\/p>\n<p>The first story is that which Jeff Hawkins (inventor of the Palm Pilot PDA) used to tell &#8211; about creating a bunch of prototypes in his spare time &#8211; on his kitchen table. In an in-between approach &#8211; whenever there was an idea and spare time.<\/p>\n<p>The second story (the one that stands out the most in this book) is from page 387 of &#8220;Steve Jobs&#8221; by Walter Isaacson where Tony Fadell sequentially reveals styrofoam models of prospective designs. Upshot is that this approach enabled an instant decision in one meeting instead of a drawn out status quo over many meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The second one is the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have an idea pop in your head, rapid prototyping is a good way of getting that idea into an object you can toss around. It doesn&#8217;t have to be fully functional &#8211; even barely functional may be good enough. This note is about two stories regarding prototyping (rapid, in that the objects were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}