Business Origami

November 13, 2009 in community, events, people, techniques

UX guru Jess McMullin presented a technique called “Business Origami” at CanUX 2009 today in Alberta. Details are a little sketchy but it seems to be a paper prototyping technique for services. Participants at the workshop described it as an early planning method with paper dolls and pop-up books.

At first blush it reminds me a bit of Jo Reid’s “Model Storming” as well as the “Envisioner” toolkit described by Jeanette Blomberg in Participatory Design Principles. But at a macro-level.

Here are a few more photos. Rawwr!

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Jess McMullin

November 16, 2009 at 9:30 pm

Hey Jeff,

Yes, business origami is like paper prototyping for multichannel design…and I’m still working out the best ways to use it, but mostly thinking of it as a collaborative workshop activity to describe current and future scenarios, contexts and environments.

cheers,

Jess