Part 2/10
The Role of The Experimenter in Innovation
Learn how to use low-fidelity, rapid prototyping to your advantage.
Welcome to Part 2 of this 10 part mini-series. This time we are looking at the role of the Experimenter. So who are the Experimenters?
Well, classically you might recognise inventors within this persona. The people who love to build and test and try and try again until they eventually find something that works.
Let’s take James Dyson as an example, the global inventor turned billionaire and my old boss. He famously created 5,127 prototypes of his cyclone vacuum technology, before getting his first vacuum out in the market. This drive to find a better way of doing something and using prototypes to iterate his design makes Dyson, by definition, an Experimenter. (Now, by all means, I am not suggesting you need to create 5,127 prototypes before you find success. It’s just that his spirit of exploration is that of an experimenter.)
What Experimenters all have in common is an unquenchable thirst to build ideas into prototypes. They explore with curiosity and even invite some serendipity when it comes to experimentation. This tenacious spirit is motivated by the chance of coming across the right solution.
