For my final Monday morning lecture presented by Stephen, we looked at the concept of design and thinking, the thought process behind design and how this can benefit us in our current and final project. Firstly, we looked at the Design Council, who developed a diagram that is a simple graphical way of describing the design process. From looking at the diamond in the lecture, I could see how this would feedback into my own work, it seemed very relatable to me.This is something we looked at in the first few weeks, the first section of the diamond starting the project and then leading to the definition stage, the developed and then the delivery stage, when the product is finished. This process is what I've always followed, at each stage I can go back and relate my project to it. The lecture was useful in terms of thinking back to what I've done in my project so far, and allow me to tick off if I've done the right design process.
We then looked over the 7 stages of the design process:
- Refine
- Research
- Ideate
- Prototype
- Select
- Implement
- Learn
"Your job isn’t to make everyone happy. It’s to make your target audience happy."
The lecture reminded me that, with my current project, I need to focus on the target audience: when I've based my work around a certain audience it becomes a lot easier to produce content, as you can narrow down your intentions, design and the writing to suit the best audience - with my current project I hadn't considered this before, so this lecture was a good refresh to go back and consider my intentions for this project - I also felt a lot more confident and content because we'd have to look over the development for our project, plan out the design properly and make sure there is some intention behind each slide. This is what I'd done with my project.
