I thought the lecture for this week was great. More specifically, the TED talk video that was included in the lecture really opened my eyes to the benefits of rapid development and iteration in human centered design. In essense, what I got from the video was that in order to attain a great solution, the end users - whether it be a community in a rural village or a group of investors - have to take part in the developmental process. Failing, a natural component of a process that is sped up this quickly, is the keystone to good development. 

Pretotyping is a simple idea. Even before the somewhat well built prototype, there exists a pretotype: a shambly little contraption that encapsulates all the key components of the end product. Using cardboard, duct tape, maybe even old fashioned pipe cleaner, people put together the roughest essense of what they want their product to do. Though for the device that I decided to talk about in my paper, the pen-mounted CCTV camera to magnify a person's writing, I feel that pretotyping a very rough design won't help very much, since the final product heavily depends on the feel and weight of the device. 

Looking back at this lecture, I'm stuck thinking to myself that this is so intuitive that I'm shocked people haven't utilised this process sooner. Working with investors to make your company more attractive to them and working with villagers to make sure your cheap effective product is truly useful are very obvious lines of thought that I guess have been overlooked in the past.