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Topic 1. The Design Process. The Design Cycle. Six Stages of the Design Cycle. Identifying or clarifying a need or opportunity The Design Brief Analyzing, researching and specifying the requirements Design Specification. Six Stages of the Design Cycle. Generating ideas and solutions

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  1. Topic 1 The Design Process

  2. The Design Cycle

  3. Six Stages of the Design Cycle • Identifying or clarifying a need or opportunity The Design Brief • Analyzing, researching and specifying the requirements Design Specification

  4. Six Stages of the Design Cycle • Generating ideas and solutions • Developing solutions • Chosen Solution / Realizing the solution • Testing and evaluation Task: The Design Process – What is a design brief?

  5. Each 'Thinking Hat' is a different style of thinking. These are explained below:  White Hat:With this thinking hat you focus on the data available. Look at the information you have, and see what you can learn from it. Look for gaps in your knowledge… Red Hat:… look at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion. Also try to think how other people will react emotionally. Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning. Black Hat:… look at all the bad points ... Look at it cautiously and defensively. Try to see why it might not work. This is important because it highlights the weak points … Yellow Hat:The yellow hat helps you to think positively. It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps you to see all the benefits Green Hat:The Green Hat stands for creativity. This is where you can develop creative solutions to a problem. Blue Hat:The Blue Hat stands for process control. This is the hat worn by people chairing meetings. (http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm

  6. The Design Cycle • Look at some case studies of designers working in real life situations

  7. Get in the hot seat • Task Ask one question at a time in an attempt to guess who the inventor is, and what the invention is

  8. Inventor of the Modern Computer • The First Freely Programmable Computer invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936

  9. First PlayStation • The history of the Playstation begins in 1988 when Sony and Nintendo were working together to develop the Super Disc.

  10. ARPAnet - The First Internet • On a cold war kind of day, in swinging 1969, work began on the ARPAnet, grandfather to the Internet.

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