When I am first asked to create something, my first instinct is to pick up some items and make. This type of beginning in my making leads to a lot more failures than successes. With the knowledge of failure in mind, I knew I had to find a different strategy in how I ought to make things, and this project gave me a new tool into how I should start a build before I start a build. This step is the step of research.
Research has helped my build because it not only tells me how something, in my case a baby mobile, is made, but also explains to me the purpose of it being made like that. For example, the reason baby mobiles began to move both vertically and horizontally was to not only amuse the baby, but teach it the different types of linear motion. With this idea in mind, I now hope to put empathise I might not of had before, on making sure my mobile can move in more than one type of direction.
After the research it finally my favorite part, the build, but even this part is different in this project than what I am used to doing. This is because the build also includes a prototype. Normally I see this step as extra, but now I see it as the necessary step in my making because it is my chance to fail! In a good way! You see, if I fail, which knowing me I will, I am then given the opportunity to take that failure and turn it into a successful final product. Afterall, all failures are just opportunities to grow and learn. And thats what I plan on doing with my prototype, grow and learn to make an excellent final product. I thought this was a funny portrait of prototyping
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