Quiz #2 Review Part 1

Question 1

Conventional Method: Drawing

Answer 1

Most conventional design method
Main aid used by designers

Question 2

Unconventional Methods

Answer 2

Formalize the procedure
Externalize design thinking

Question 3

Formalize the procedure

Answer 3

-creating a checklist of sorts to make sure no part of the problem is overlooked
-standardizes the search for information so that no avenue is overlooked

Question 4

Externalize design thinking

Answer 4

-get information into charts and diagrams
-better for sharing ideas/working with a team
-ideas are not only in your own head
-get systemic stuff on paper to have room for creativity

Question 5

Rational methods

Answer 5

checklist
goal: get what you have to do out of your head

Question 6

Creative methods

Answer 6

brainstorming, Goal: many ideas, Synectics, Goal: A specific solution

Question 6

What is a concept?

Answer 6

-describes the imagery you are trying to achieve
-idea or visual image from which all design decisions can be made
-overall idea that unifies the parts of the project
-provides direction for the design,
-organizes the principles and elements of design for a project

Question 7

Concept definition AHD

Answer 7

-a general idea or understanding, especially one derived from specific instances or occurrences

Question 8

Concept definition design

Answer 8

-general strategy or approach for a solution
-gives you appropriate responses to specific project problems

Question 9

What is a concept? Definition

Answer 9

-conception is a beginning
-beginning that can be touched off by inspiration

Question 10

GREAT design

Answer 10

1. Less, but better
2. Blow people’s minds
3. Don’t cause unnecessary harm
4. Let function inform design
5. Design local, think global
   Can be invisible

Question 11

Design Thinking

Answer 11

-designing with intent/designing for meaning,
-a repeatable, human centered method for creative problem solving
-empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test

Question 12

Design Process and Design Thinking

Answer 12

DP adds detail to the DT,
-personal (how do work and think?),
-may differ based on industry (industrial engineering vs apparel design),
-actual process is not so linear-may go in reverse and repeat steps often

Question 13

Empathize

Answer 13

-Learn about the customer
-first step in design thinking, a skill that allows us to understand and share the same feeling that others feel, put ourselves in other people’s shoes and connect with how they might be feeling about their problem, circumstance, or situation.
-what is the person feeling?
-What actions or words indicate this feeling?
- Can you identify their feelings through words?
-What words would you use to describe their feeling?

Question 14

Define

Answer 14

-Thinking about the solution
-construct a point of view based on customer needs and insights
-Understand why anything is, then that is the root of being able to come up with a solution,
-once the problem is identified and truly understood then your mind can be set free to ideate the ‘what ifs’,
-at this point the possible solutions are endless

Question 15

Ideate

Answer 15

-Thinking-Form and content
-Brainstorm many possible solutions
-what will be presented/subject matter (content) and how (form)?
-If product design, what are you showing to the client?
-have to keep in mind cross-cultural understanding-does the form and the content convey? Really successful design communicates across time, distance, generations, cultures.

Question 16

Ideate: Form and function

Answer 16

-purpose (function) defines the look and shape (form)
-form follows function: purpose defines the look the shape

Question 17

What are design methods?

Answer 17

-any identifiable way of working.
-procedures, techniques, aids, tools

Question 18

Why methods matter?

Answer 18

-Something you dislike can still be a good design
-consider other opinions and different human perspectives
-various methods allow us to consider strengths and weaknesses
-create consistency to design process

Question 19

Ideate: Looking

Answer 19

Nature- generative design-numeric data generates forms
Artifacts and objects- seeing qualities beyond the object itself
History and culture- what shaped what you are looking at?
Thinking with materials

Question 20

Prototype

Answer 20

build a representation of your solutions

Question 21

Test

Answer 21

put prototype in front of users for feedback

Question 22

Doing and Redoing

Answer 22

-prototype and test stage
-reflect on what you have learned, be open to change, revisions, and restarts
-revisions usually grow ideas and refines your original into something better

Question 23

Critique and feedback

Answer 23

-prototype and test stage
-understand success and shortcomings
-often based on principles and elements
-best after completion of design
-Description, Analysis, Interpretation

Question 24

Non-linear

Answer 24

-order is the same but not the process
-don’t let process become habitual to not get in a rut
-get exposed, don’t get use to the process, keep it changing

Question 25

Another way of design thinking

Answer 25

-understand and empathies
-Synthesis
-Reframe
-Ideate
-Test

Question 26

Where to find design inspiration?

Answer 26

1. Look broader, take a step back
2. Look closer
3. Think younger, like a child

Question 27

Where do we start?

Answer 27

-explore the ill-defined problem
-generate a concept

Question 28

Heuristic process

Answer 28

-hands on, designer has to learn for themselves while doing
-derived from a Greek word that means “to discover”

Question 29

Categories of Models

Answer 29

predictive, descriptive, prescriptive

Question 30

Predictive models

Answer 30

-analyze the past for the future
-help predict what will happen and why it will happen

Question 31

Descriptive models

Answer 31

-creating a relationship in the data, grouping
-the most primitive pieces of business intelligence
-based on data from past activities
-can detail what happened and what is happening to help you plan

Question 32

Prescriptive models

Answer 32

-decision based on all the elements, prescribing
-generated by analyzing a combination of numerical, categorical, and big data along with artificial intelligence, machine learning, human interaction, and business rules and sciences
-suggest possible design

Question 33

End goal of the design process

Answer 33

-What do we have to achieve?
-a solution, something we are proud of, something unique, something the client likes

Question 34

We have to have a description

Answer 34

-at the end of the process we have to have a description of the article to be made
-has to be understandable to who will make the object
-effectively communicate to the producer things like material, size, how it will work

Question 35

What is the main way to communicate design?

Answer 35

drawing