IDans

Third year and semester 5 just came in! In sya Allah, this will be my final year! Need to more focused on ID. I had just read this from a web site and think of how to apply it! Hope it will help us IDans..

Design can be thought of as problem solving in a highly constrained and technical environment.
Once a preliminary means or design concept has been established for a design, most problems arise directly from the detailed requirements of that concept and the interactions of systems that implement the concept with the operating environment.

A design concept is more specific than an idea, but less specific than a layout or drawing of a product. Usually, concepts are best described by an annotated sketch.
Note that the sketches are of varying degrees of detail. Sometimes they may be quite meticulous, but they do not need to be.
The question is: How do we come up with these concepts?

There is no simple answer to this question. There are various thinking strategies that can help identify ways to solve or at least avoid the problems. Some of them are described here. The particular techniques described below and names given them are adapted from.

Techniques to Promote Design Concept Generation:

i) Confront the Problem

ii) Change the Source of the Problem

iii) Isolate the Problem

iv) Invert the Problem

v) Reverse the Problem

vi) Divide the Problem

vii) Designing by Analogy

viii) Designing with Product Attributes

x) Challenge Assumptions

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