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The Contested Prototype

1 posts · February 2026 – February 2026

What happens when a designer builds production-quality code and the organisation doesn't know what to do with it? A series tracing the structural position of design work - from prototyping typologies and agile governance through professional jurisdiction and design capture.

Part of: RIPT - Reporting, Insights, Publications & Transparency (2025–2026)

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    Frontstage, Backstage, and the Line of Visibility

    February 9, 2026

    This is the fifth post in The Contested Prototype series. The first post described the practical situation; the second developed a prototyping typology grounded in Floyd (1984) and the Scandinavian...