{"id":285,"date":"2017-02-21T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2017-02-21T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T19:51:09","slug":"business-origami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/21\/business-origami\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Origami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.sap.com\/skillup\/business-origami\/\">Business Origami<\/a> is a method that has been invented by the <a title=\"Hitachi Design Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hitachi.com\/design\/field\/experience\/business_origami\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hitachi Design Center<\/a>. It uses paper cut-outs as symbolic representations of people, groups, channels and environments, to create a miniature model of a system. The cut-outs are placed on a whiteboard or a big piece of paper where the different areas, interactions and flows between the system elements are drawn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It has the advantage of taking the physical environment of the user (and the business) into account while designing systems.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to use it as much as I&#8217;d like, but I will definitely use it again. Here are a couple pictures we used in graduate school to walk personas through their experience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-283\" src=\"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Map-Jason-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Map-Jason-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Map-Jason-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Map-Jason-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-284\" src=\"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Map-Kevin-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Map-Kevin-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Map-Kevin-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Map-Kevin-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They might have addressed this by now, but for this project we wanted some &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/wifi_business_origami.pdf\">WiFi<\/a>&#8221; cutouts, so I made them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Business Origami is a method that has been invented by the Hitachi Design Center. It uses paper cut-outs as symbolic representations of people, groups, channels and environments, to create a miniature model of a system. The cut-outs are placed on a whiteboard or a big piece of paper where the different areas, interactions and flows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marksquire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}