This talk was a rather short one- 45 minutes, encompassing a very important point:

THE DESIGN PROCESS

1. Recognition of need (What do people want?)


2. Identification of constraints and functions (What does the product do?)


3. Requirements and specifications (What do we want the product to do?)


4. Generate solutions (What are the possible designs? What is the best designs amongst this?)


5. Concept design (How does my design work?)


6. Prototyping (Does my design really work?)


7. Detailed design (What are its details? - Engineering Drawings to complement)

We find this design process very interesting, as it goes through the entire journey from conceptualisation to manufacturing. The process eliminates unneccessary time that may be spent on trial and error.

Also, if we had known this method earlier, we might not have performed badly during our Year 1 Innovation Programme, where we had to do similar designing and prototyping. And if Thomas Edison had known this process and done step 2, 3, 4 instead of going straight to step 6 (prototyping), he might have invented the light bulb earlier.

We hope that this method would be useful to us tomorrow during the designing competition, which we hope to win first :D

Design desirables vs design thinking