The reading is: Tagawa, K., Watanabe, K., & Ogata, H. (2014). Pendulum of Design Innovation. Tokyo: LIXIL Shuppan.
In my opinion, I really agree on the points and importance on prototyping and how it will be able to help in future development. It mentioned that unproductive meeting occurs as discussion are based on abstract ideas and concepts. Indeed when we have prototyped, many more issue come to light hence meeting can be more productive and progress can be seen clearer.
It is something that I feel personally important as the step of prototyping itself will direct the direction of a project. And having to delay such important steps will hinder good progress no matter how good the abstract plan was.
I hope that our project will be able to reach this step soon hence we will be able to see what works and what’s not to be able to improve more on our design. 🙂