Prototyping in Smart Product Design: Investigating Prototyping Tools to Support Communication of Interactive and Environmental Qualities

Abstract The increasing availability of smart products creates a more pronounced need for designers to prototype and communicate interactive environmental qualities product during their design process. This paper explores which elements User journey, Storyboards Wireframes contribute communicating these qualities, how they might integrate with sketching. Results show depictions user temporal alongside low fidelity sketches are deemed most important. Our findings form the basis propose subsequently test combined prototyping approaches in future research.