Reection on prototyping workshop

I tested this intended interaction in the interaction prototyping workshop. This was the workshop with four fellow students, that did not live in the same street. So it I needed to come up with a familiar situation. The thing that the four students share is our faculty. So I came up with this metaphor in the prototyping workshop to test my intended interaction. What I wanted tot get out of this workshop is if people actually are getting prouder, if they shared a spot which they really love. And the other question was if they were proud of this spot, because of the spot itself, or a moment that was happening is this spot. I asked the participant to go into the faculty and to take a picture with their smartphone of the spot they were most proud of. After ten minutes we got back together and discussed each others photos. The question was why they were proud of this spot. After the session they were asked if they became more proud on the faculty. When the participants came back to present their photo, they told us why they were proud of the place. Two participants chose the main hall of IDE as the spot they were most proud of, because of the overview/openness and the nice atmosphere. They always lunch here with fellow students from other faculties because of this for example. One other person chose the green corridor at Studiolab, because all of the current projects she and her fellow students were working on, were hanging there. I chose i.d-Kafee as my pride spot, because of my memories there and it feels like a second living room to me. After sharing these stories I asked if they were more proud at the IDE faculty. They were, because through the sharing it remembers you of nice the nice spots. They were also surprised why some people chose these places, because they had other experiences. After all, I could say that the intended interaction succeed pretty well. The participants got more prouder by sharing experiences about different places in a shared environment. I think the prototyping workshop was really helpful to me. It it nice that it is obliged, because than it forces you to actual do something. So I tried to get the most out of it that was possible. It came at the right moment in my process. - Maik de Rooij