Generating and Developing Ideas

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Chapter 10

• Generating and Developing Ideas

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9. Redesigning and Improving
1. Identifying problems and opportunities.
Design Loop
8. Testing and Evaluating
2. Framing a Design Brief
3. Investigation and Research
7. Modeling and Prototyping
6. Developmental Work
4. Generating Alternative Solutions
5. Choosing a Solution
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Generate Alternative Solutions

• Creative thinking being able to think laterally
  instead of vertically.
• Vertical thinking logical form of problem
  solving
• Lateral Thinking unconventional and creative,
  new paths can be explored and discovered.

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Generate Possible Solutions

• Analogies similarity between two unlike things
• Brainstorming All ideas are good ideas
• Synectics familiar strange and strange
  familiar (be like a shoe)
• Sketching and Doodling random thoughts
• Incubation Let your brain think

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Developmental Work

• Taking the ideas to the next stage, make them
  more do-able for the the problem so you can make
  decisions about them.
• Models
• Graphic Design
• Structural Model
• Jinks Method

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Functional Development

• Mechanical Systems
• Low Relief, Fischertchnik, Lego, Erector sets
• Electronic Systems
• Circuit boards, prototyping (breadboard) boards,
• Pneumatic/Hydraulic Systems
• Syringes and plastic hoses, kits
• Ergonomics
• Human factors engineering

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Appearance

• Aesthetics
• Line, shape, form, value, color, texture
• Relationships between design elements
• Balance, rhythm, proportion/scale, contrast,
  harmony,

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Aesthetic/Design Styles

• Art Nouveau 1880s - 1900s natural shapes
• Arts and Crafts 1880s practical not ornamental
• Bauhaus 1919 -Form follows function
• Modernism 1930s streamlined art deco
• 50s / 60s new and improved, commercialism
• Contemporary 1970 80 high-tech
• Environmentalism 1990s conservation, enviro.

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Choosing the Best Solution

• Very non linear step
• Are the criteria met?
• Meets the design brief?
• Aesthesis

• Ergonomic
• Cost Resources
• Ethics
• Time
• Safety

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Attributes Matrix