From the Design Bootleg reading this week, the main thing I really took away from it was to prototype as if you know you’re right, and test as if you know you’re wrong. It’s a different way to put it, but when you’re creating something, you want to keep in mind everything you know about the users and what they currently use. But then when you’re testing the prototype, having that mindset that you’re “wrong” and there can be improvements made is important to gain more insight and progress your product/service.
The 5 Lenses of Adventurous Thinking was an interesting read because it explained things in a different perspective. In the images above, I use the arrow from FedEx to represent negative space. In this reading, it explained that the negative space is not the focus, but it is useful because it gives context. Negative space is physical, durational, and perceptional. And then the thinking sideways was a good way to summarize understanding your own point of view and preferences, but also being able to understand the point of view and preferences that you’re not used to. It’s effective to discover new and more solutions and ideas that might not have been known otherwise.
