Fast Prototyping – Results on schedule

The journey from idea to finished product begins when we move from design to prototyping. In prototyping, a new product or service is tested by real customers as early as possible. Fast prototyping may involve building a hospital operating theatre out of cardboard or turning a user interface into a comic strip.

From idea to fast prototyping

As early as in the design phase, fast prototyping ensures that there is a genuine demand for a new service project and that the results will meet your customer’s needs. In prototyping, ideas are concretised into a form that you can test as early as possible with your real customers, on several experimentation rounds and with a quick schedule.

Prototyping does not need to be difficult or expensive

LAB8 Fast Prototyping offers a ready-made, fast prototyping process, facilitates the work, brings together test subjects and offers the facilities and materials.

Benefits of Fast Prototyping

Results with a quick schedule
As the name suggests, fast prototyping means designing prototypes quickly. Instead of spending months or even years developing a new service, we can get there in mere days or weeks.
Collect useful customer data
Do you think this might work for our customers? How could we ensure that our customers love our new service? How could this be further improved? Fast prototyping involves development and testing with real customers.
Save in product development
People often think that all testing is time-consuming and expensive. When the entire package is completed in days instead of months, customer orientation is guaranteed cost-efficiently!

Increasingly user-oriented design

“Service design is all about customer orientation and getting ideas together. Various tools help us collect information and crystallise our understanding during the different stages of the process, making it easier to communicate our discoveries.”
- Teemu Moilanen

Contact

Teemu

Moilanen

yliopettaja

Research Area Director

+358 294471515

teemu.moilanen@haaga-helia.fi

LAB8 Fast Prototyping: services

The planning of prototyping may require competence, premises or test users not available to the design team.

The service offering will provide an ideal solution for your design team’s work and the service test phase. Find the right way to try out your exact idea. Whether you are looking for prototyping design or the right people to carry it out, LAB8 can help you.

An individual workshop includes all you need: the facilitation, facilities and materials. The instructors are specialists from the LAB8 team.

Service offering – 11 different fast prototyping workshops

Implementation of prototyping
3D prototyping
Modelling a space into which users can walk
Cardboard Prototyping
Cardboard construction and modelling
Actor, set designer & video
A service sample for prototype design and prototyping
Cartoonist / Graphic Designer
A cartoonist or graphic designer to produce artistic illustration
Gamification
A guided serious game workshop for the design team
SAP Scenes
Storyboards
Lego Serious Play
Build with Lego
Paper & Pen prototyping
Draw and test
Wireframing
Try out a user interface or website
Storyboarding
Using a storyboard to try out a user interface, for instance

The fast prototyping workshop is an efficient way to get down to business. Your idea can be tried out even during the same day under the guidance of the LAB8 specialist team, and the workshop handily serves as part of the service design project.

The workshop consists of two three-hour sessions that can be held on the same day or as separate events. The workshop works best when the goals of the prototyping have been considered in advance.

Workshop contents:

Planning the prototyping 3 h
Implementing the prototyping 3 h

The Design Sprint is an inspiring and action-packed three-day workshop that involves planning and implementing the prototyping under the guidance of the LAB8 specialist team. In three days, an idea will evolve into a new service or product.

The workshop can cover an extensive theme, since there will be time to understand the subject in addition to prototyping. On the last day, the functionality of the service or product will be tested in the desired manner together with real customers.