Prototype – why use a prototype in early stages of a product

"If a picture is worth a 1000 words, than a prototype is worth a 1000 meetings” - Tom & Daviv Kelly Prototype – seeing is the best way of understanding Imagine the following situation: you are standing next to a panel in a large conference room or sitting and presenting on a projector in front of many other people sitting around a round table. Does this situation sound familiar? I would imagine that it does – this is a natural situation that happens during the workday several times, and one in which we usually participate. And now imaging you coming to a meeting in a room with no round table, with a model in its center. All the participants stand or sit around the model, so that they can see it in every direction. The participants may be able to enter the model, look at it or pick it up. The ability to communicate the idea or concept is a vital part of the ...
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2022 Ergonomics Day – how ergonomics can help you

Did you know? The 28 th of February is Ergonomics Day in Israel and around the world The purpose of ergonomics is to prevent musculoskeletal injuries, the leading causes of which include repetitiveness. For this reason, ergonomists have chosen February, which is the month whose number of days changes each time and is not repetitive. A kind of reverse humor, if you will. Most of us hear ergonomics and think of office ergonomics and immediately ask ourselves “Am I sitting properly? And “Where should I put the screen?”. But ergonomics is much more besides. Every product that we make and action that we perform has an ergonomic motif – from a pushchair to a shopping cart. From a computer mouse to home kitchen design. Everything that we touch and use is ergonomic or not ergonomic. In ergonomics, it’s all about not having to think about what we are using. When the ...
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