Quattro types of prototypes! (Reading response)

Design is the art of seeing hidden moves, as a designer we must always be looking and paying attention. In design the devil isn't in the details, he's between the details. It's up to is to see these details and see what's between them; what the connections are. Humans make decisions, and the hidden connections are where those decisions are made, seeing those decisions helps designers improve and simplify. 

As a designer is thinking and making (see what I did there?) there are four main ways that ideas can be translated and improved through prototyping.

Conceptual: Displays an idea in its beginning stages. Often abstract and very vague. Generally these prototypes are for a designer-designer translation.

Procedural: Used to display the logic implied to the design. The aesthetics and covers so-to-speak are kept away.

Behavioral: Elicits user responses. Still stays away from aesthetics but shows how the logic in the design is applied to the user. Focused on integration and response.

Appearance: The typical prototype. Shows the whole idea as it will be seen by the user. Aesthetic is included and the covers are on.