ICP – 07/11/24 – Week 6: The Design Process

ICP – 07/11/24 – Week 6: The Design Process

– Design can be defined as the process of creative problem-solving; a process of creative, constructive behaviour. Designers are people who behave creatively relative to problem situations; people who generate uniquely satisfying solutions to such situations.

Process of Design

Process of design describes a series or sequence of events, stages, phases or energy states. Before completing a design journey, it is usually necessary to pass through each of those phases.

Exquisite Corpse

^ In groups of four we played exquisite corpse with a reduced time limit to demonstrate the design process and how it is impacted by time limits and constraints are set to avoid over-analysing and avoidance of the end result. It also set prompts that were used later on in the lesson to create a rat’s nest of information to show that there are infinite amounts of different strains of knowledge and sources that can be used as inspiration for work.

Logical Sequence of Events Included in the Design Process

– Accept Situation

-To find reasons for going on

-To state initial intentions

-To accept the problem as a challenge

-To give up our autonomy to the problem and allow the problem to become our process

-Analyse

-To get the facts and feelings

-To get to know about the ins and outs of the problem

-To discover what the world of the problem looks like

-Define

-To determine the essential goal(s)

-To decide what we believe to be the main issues of the problem

-To conceptualise and to clarify our major goals concerning the problem situation

-Ideate

-To generate options for achieving the essential goal(s)

-To search out all the ways of possibly getting to the major goals

-Select

-To choose from the options

-To compare our goals as defined with our possible ways of getting there

-Determine best ways to go

-Implement

-To take action

-To give action or physical form to our selected ‘best ways’

-Evaluate

-To review and plan again

-To determine the effects or ramifications as well as the degree of progress of our design activity

Introduction to Analysis

-When a deep involving acceptance calls for an intense analysis you will begin to see the many apparent interrelationships between your subject-situation and other things.

-Analysis urges you to circle back a for a few more bits of information; leaving you rarely satisfied to have discovered enough.

Methods for Analysis

The Basic Questions

-Who can help me solve this problem?

-What has already been tried to solve this problem?

-Are there books or references available?

-What are my resources and what is required?

-Where can information be found?

-Where can information be found?

-What is the total scope or ‘world’ of this problem?

-Which limits can I control and which are fixed?

-What is allowed and what is ruled out?

-Can the rules be changed?