Experience prototyping

Experience prototyping is a method that focuses on how a task or a situation is experienced with the main purpose to gain understanding of users and their experiences in a real world context and to evaluate and communicate design ideas. The designers investigate users needs as actors role-playing users in a real user environment. The aim is to find solutions for a new services. The technique helps the designers to understand the users point of view when designing future devices. (Strömberg, Pirttilä, and Ikonen 2004).