The Role of Mixed Prototyping in Product Design Assessment

Abstract

The paper reasons about the use of Mixed Prototyping techniques for the assessment of the product design. Specifically, the paper addressed the assessment of products with aesthetic values and shows how new techniques and tools based on Mixed Prototyping contribute in reducing the product development time and related costs, in improving the quality of the designed products and eventually allows the involvement of product designers and stylists and of end users as well into the design loop.