Scott Witthoft
Austin, Texas, US
Adjunct Lecturer, (d.school) Institute of Design, Stanford University; (previous) Associate Professor of Practice, University of Texas; Co-Author, “Make Space: How to Set the Scene for Creative Collaboration” and “This is a Prototype: the Curious Craft of Exploring New Ideas.”
(5) Big Ideas from the Podcast:
- be awesome at asking questions; linger longer in the questions
- the positive power of “not-working-ness”
- the negative irony of creating a ‘space for prototyping’ (like a formal maker space) can sometimes mean that prototyping doesn’t happen anywhere else
- why Scott advocates for the inefficiency of teaching collaborations: “my knowledge is as not the boundary for any topic.”
- prototyping isn’t ultimately about the ‘thing’ you design or the ‘solution’; it’s about “embodying questions” that need to be explored