Design Cycle – Steps & Pathway
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ix. Reflect
Your personal journey.
• What you did
• How to improve next time
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viii. Review
• What happened
• Summarise
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vii. Outcome
A final design or end result
• The best idea
• How a design turns out
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vi. Solutions
Refined designs to solve an Issue
• Careful developments
• Well thought out ideas
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v. Concept
Experimental models & designs
• Rough plans
• General ideas
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iv. Research
Collect information to guide the project.
• Searching for knowledge
• Systematic learning
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iii. Brief
A few words written to guide design work
• Instructions
• A written vision
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ii. Stakeholders
People involved in an action or idea.
• Groups of people
• Anyone linked to a project
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i. Issue
Something to be solved or fixed.
• A problem
• What needs to be done
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STEP D. Evaluate
Find out what others think & reflect on what you have experienced.
● Reach a conclusion
● Form an opinion
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STEP C. Create
Bring an artistic expression into existence.
● Make
● Cause to be
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STEP B. Plan
Show what to do by writing a brief, making diagrams, drawings & lists
● A proposal
● An action scheme
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STEP A. Investigate
Systematic enquiry
● Identify an Issue
● Think about who is connected
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