Design: The design process |
Before going much further, it’s worth remembering that designing is not always about creating a brand new product or service. In fact, in most cases it’s about improving or modifying an existing product. When designing a brand new product or service, the design process will have more stages because we usually need to consider a wider range of options and alternative solutions than when we are simply modifying or redesigning an existing product. A typical design project involves the following tasks:
We shall look at what actually makes up each of these tasks later on. For now, you only need to be aware that designing something involves a series of tasks and each of these forms an important stage in reaching your eventual goal, an engineered product or an engineered service. If you find this difficult to remember, the diagram on the right shows the design process described only in terms of the key words that relate to each of the individual stages. |
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