During your journey through the halls of Playtime Co in Poppy Playtime, you'll soon come to realize there's a puppetmaster pulling the strings somewhere deeper in the factory. This puppetmaster is an ...

Brian David Johnson tells us about what’s sci-fi prototyping and how it can be used to predict the future and prepare for the unexpected. Brian David Johnson [Photo: Sarah Jenkins] When Intel hired ...

Since the release of Poppy Playtime: Chapter 4, fans have been left asking one burning question: what is the Prototype really hiding? While most players have focused on the surface-level horror and ...

1. What is prototyping? In what areas/phases is prototyping best applied (innovation, maturation, risk reduction, workforce, others or all)? 2. Why is prototyping important? Has its importance and ...

Believe it or not, not everyone can agree on the definition and there’s a good reason. Most companies are not using prototypes the right way. A prototype should be a physical representation of your ...

Testing with production-grade materials significantly reduces startup failures by catching design flaws before expensive manufacturing commits. Production-intent prototypes using actual manufacturing ...

Ryan Gray is Co-Founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a product engineering and design firm featured in The Lean Startup. It’s very common for a prospective client to come to our product development ...

It’s a quiet pressure fueled by a single piece of career advice, guest lectures from celebrities and sometimes Faculty, repeated so often that it has become gospel: "Follow your passion." The pressure ...

Why at-speed prototyping is necessary to deal with rising design complexity, and to maintain verification agility and coverage.

Poppy Playtime has a big cast of characters across its first four chapters, and we're here to break down their motivations, past, and lore so you can catch up on the wider story. On this page, we'll ...