Designing by Making: your process for arranging furniture can point toward a good process for UI design
Many contemporary design process artifacts like field interviews, a wall of post-it notes, and paper prototypes reflect an increasingly antiquated premise: that building a real thing is much more expensive than producing a design.
Later:
Much software is still designed this way, even though the economics of user interface implementation have changed radically. The effort required to create useful, functional, beautiful, reliable, and performant software application user interfaces has been dropping for years, and this trend will continue for the foreseeable future.
Love the furniture-moving analogy. The best designs emerge through iterations, and we must continue to shorten the time and flatten the curve required to build user interfaces to improve what we’re pushing out to users.
(Via flow|state)