Design Process

The Design Process
1. Identify a Need.	Identify a Need or Purpose in a given situation.
2. Design Brief.	Produce a short Design Brief.
3. Tasks Schedule.	List all major areas of work and allocate times and deadlines.
4. Analysis of Brief.	Look at the Brief and produce a list of research questions.
5. Research.	Identify and collate information only relevant to the Analysis of Brief.
6. Specification.	Produce a list of design requirements found from research relevant to the Brief.
7. Generate Ideas.	Generate a range of different possible solutions satisfying the Specification.
8. Choose Solution.	Produce a solution to the Brief using the Specification and your Generated Ideas.
9. Develop Solution.	Generate details necessary to make the solution.
10. Make Solution.	Produce the solution.
11. Test Solution.	Test your solution against the Brief and Specification.
12. Modify Solution.	List modifications to improve the solution’s effectiveness.
13. Evaluation.	Evaluate the project against the Brief and Specification, giving recommendations.