Design Stratagies Flashcards
What are the several different design stratagies?
● Collaboration: Workin together
● User-Centred design
● Systems approach
● Iterative design
● Designing from material forms: Biomimicry
● Avoiding Design Fixation
Explain collaboration
When your in the initial states of a project it is sometimes good to work with others as part of a group.
What are the advantages of collaboration
● Wider set fo resources
● More ideas
● Broader experience
● Sharing of information
Explain user-centred design
The wants and the needs of the user are a priority.
Their thouhts are given lots of attention through design work
What are the advantages of user-centred design
• Gain specialist knowledge
• Knowledge in variety of areas
• Client involved in the process
Explain the systems approach
Breaking down the design process into a number of different stages an doing each in turn
What are the advantages of systems approach
• This logical approach is particularly useful in electronics where there is an input, process and output, as each stage has to perform a specific function before moving on to the next step.
Explain iterative design
A process that is centred around constant process
of evaluation and improvement.
What are the advantages of iterative design
● Improves desins based on the results of testing
● Constant improvement
● Desin is improved step by step
● Easy to track problems and fix them early on
What is biomimicry?
Biomimicry is an innovative approach to design that strives to copy nature’s time-tested patterns and structures
What are the advantages of biomimicry
Nature has already solved many of the problems encountered.
Eg - boxfish, aerodynamic shape
What is design fixation
- when designers over-fixate on one specific design idea
- Design fixation confines a designer to limited creativity.
- It is a reressive cycle, that is sometimes difficult to escape.
How can design fixation be avoided
● collaboration
● feedback from user groups
● testing a product
