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Design Process
As Richa said many of us did the shelter project but each of them is different showing how people that are given the same parameters come up with very different things. Here is my shelters design process Design Process for a … Continue reading
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Others fields designing
For my last short project I talked to two of my friends and then observed them in the process of designing. My first friend is an art major here at CMU and she described her design process as: she begins … Continue reading
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Outside an Education.
The second topic that is mentioned for this weeks discussion is very interesting to me. I am always interested in learning how it is that designers learn outside of school. Do designers learn from creating or is it from seeing … Continue reading
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Analysis of a design process
So for my second small project I chose to analyze Richa and Greg’s design process that they posted a few weeks back about the perfect shower. Here it goes: They begin with the factor that makes up the perfect experience, … Continue reading
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Another exercise possibility!
Just another idea for a design thinking exercise that I think would be a lot of fun to do. This involves having more than one person. You take papers and split them into 3 sections and each person gets one. … Continue reading
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Majors in Universities
After last classes discussion on how universities are very segregated in the way that they make students chose a Major, and then have to take particular classes that go along with the Major. I find it rather fascinating the idea … Continue reading
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Is It Just for Designers?
I believe that there is a role that everyone plays in designing. Although there are professional designers that come up with ideas in many cases they are not the users of what they design. This is what makes the users … Continue reading
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Water Bottle Design
So as one of my small projects I decided to try to do the same thing that we had done in class with the coffee mug but with a Water Bottle. It was a bit more challenging to do this … Continue reading
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Iterations, Better or Worse?
After reading “How Prototyping Practices Affect Design Results” and “Prototyping Dynamics: Sharing Multiple Designs Improves Exploration, Group Rapptor, and Results” I begin to understand why we are asked to create many iterations of our ideas in studio and why we … Continue reading
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Too Much Math
In the reading this week the author, Herb Simon, discusses that many professional programs are becoming to systematic and mathematical and straying away from actually teaching how to solve design problems. It is interesting to me how he describes that the reason why there was … Continue reading
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