A prototyping method as a tool to support communication between designer and user

创新作为企业竞争力的核心手段，需要开发与用户相关的产品，并要求定期评估发展目标和实际用户需求。在过去，相应地建立了用户整合和参与的方法，在此过程中，原型被宣传为支持交流过程的适当手段。然而，到目前为止，用户和设计者对产品、其功能以及相应的原型表示的解释机制的差异几乎没有看到研究。然而，对这些过程的了解似乎对于避免误解和因此而产生的错误发展是必要的，也是有效地将用户的信息纳入开发过程所必需的。它似乎特别有利于识别、组织和评估影响内在沟通过程的变量。其目的是澄清用户和设计者对原型的解释中需要考虑的特性、边界条件、干扰和过滤变量。这使设计者能够准确地传递一组特定的信息，以弥补解释上的相互差异，从而以面向目标的有效方式记录用户反馈，并让其正确地告知开发过程。

Innovation as a central instrument for business competitiveness requires the development of user-relevant products and calls for a regular assessment of development goals and actual user needs. In the past, methods for user-integration and -participation have been established accordingly, in the course of which prototypes are propagated as adequate means to support the communication process. However, differences in the interpretation mechanisms between users and designers regarding the products, their functionalities, and corresponding prototypical representations have seen little research so far. Yet, an understanding of these processes seems necessary to avoid misinterpretations and consequently misdevelopments and is needed to effectively integrate information from the user into the development process. It seems to be particularly beneficial to identify, structure, and evaluate the variables affecting the inherent communication process. The objective is to clarify which charac-teristics, boundary conditions, disturbances, and filter variables from the interpretation of prototypes by users and designers to consider in the design of prototypes. This enables the designer to transport a specific set of information accurately, to compensate for mutual differences in interpretation, and thus to record user-feedback in a goal-oriented and valid way and to let it correctly inform the development process.