Interior Design 1.02: The Design Process

To turn new ideas into reality...

Make connections and problem solve...

• Prototype

• Create

• Evaluate

• Listen

According to Webster, this means to do something in a NEW way or develop new methods and thinking of the way something is accomplished.

• Innovate

• Create

• Calculate

• Generate

Methodology used by designers to solve complex problems, and find desirable solutions for clients.

• Create

• Innovate

• Design thinking

• Evaluation

– When you work with a client, this is the process of OBSERVING, ENGAGING , WATCHING and LISTENING, to understand your client's needs and wants.

• Prototype

• Evaluate

• Testing

• Empathize

–Narrowing down the focus of your client's needs and wants and bringing clarity and focus into the design discussion.

• Ideate

• Define

• Prototype

• Test

Multiple artifacts or samples based upon what you have generated in the "Ideate" phase...

• Testing

• Empathizing

• Prototypes

• Defining

–Allows you to bring multiple prototypes to the user for comparisons to see if these will work and meet the needs of the client.

• Prototypes

• Testing

• Ideate

• Defining

Who should be the main focus of the design process?

• The designer

• The product

• The testing

• The client

If a prototype fails to meet the expectations of the user after testing, what should be done?

• Go back to the drawing board and start again.

• Re-examine the problems with the prototype and redesign.

• Re-design and retest.

• All of the above.

What should not be allowed to happen during the ideate (brainstorming) phase?

• Judging / criticizing the designs

• Generating as many ideas as possible

• Selecting three or four workable ideas

• Brainstorming crazy ideas