IED - Design Process

To thoroughly and methodically analyze accomplishment against specific goals and criteria.

• Valid

• Assess

• Justifiable

• Assessment

An evaluation technique for technology that requires analyzing benefits and risks, understanding the trade-offs, and then determining the best action to take in order to ensure that the desired positive outcomes outweigh the negative consequences.

• Assessment

• Assess

• Prototype

• Justifiable

A group technique for solving problems, generating ideas, stimulating creative thinking, etc. by unrestrained spontaneous participation in discussion.

• Problem Identification

• Constraint

• Criteria

• Brainstorm

A person using the services of a professional person or

organization.

• Research

• Client

• Engineer

• Designer

The ability to make or bring a new concept or idea into

existence; marked by the ability or power to create.

• Engineer

• Creativity

• Design

• Designer

A means of judging. A standard, rule, or test by which something can be judged

• Criteria

• Valid

• Constraint

• Design Brief

1. A limit to a design process. Constraints may be such

things as appearance, funding, space, materials, and human capabilities.

2. A limitation or restriction.

• Criteria

• Problem Identification

• Constraint

• Engineer

An iterative decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are converted into products or systems that meet human needs and wants or solve problems

• Design

• Criteria

• Iterative

• Engineer

A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints. The design brief is used to encourage thinking of all aspects of a problem before attempting a solution.

• Design Process

• Justifiable

• Design Brief

• Design Statement

A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem or satisfy human needs and wants and to winnow (narrow) down the possible solutions to one final choice.

• Design

• Design Brief

• Design Statement

• Design Process