Digital School website by Marc Williams - email
I created this website to document the Alfriston College Digital Technology curriculum 2011-2021
I created this website to document the Alfriston College Digital Technology curriculum 2011-2021
These are 12 Creative Thinking design strategies to develop project ideas
1. Design to a brief
Are you designing for a client, stakeholders or creating your own project?
What is the project about?
What are the needs or issues or opportunities you need to consider?
A project brief defines clear expectations including timelines, key milestones & resources to complete the project
What is the project about?
What are the needs or issues or opportunities you need to consider?
A project brief defines clear expectations including timelines, key milestones & resources to complete the project
2. Design to keywords
What are the main keywords of the project?
Project keywords can inspire creative thinking to explore design ideas
Visualise keywords with drawings to start the process of designing the project
Project keywords can inspire creative thinking to explore design ideas
Visualise keywords with drawings to start the process of designing the project
3. Design with drawings
All drawings are a series of basic shapes that include lines, circles, squares and triangles.
Communicate your ideas to yourself and others by doing quick 2 minute drawings
Do this 30 second line drawing exercise to practice your drawing skills
Communicate your ideas to yourself and others by doing quick 2 minute drawings
Do this 30 second line drawing exercise to practice your drawing skills
Use the strategy of doing 4 drawings per page Draw simple line drawings to visualise your ideas
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4. Design with circles or wireframes
No matter what your designing - start with basic shapes to layout your project design.
These YouTube examples describe how to design a building with circles & an app or website with wireframes
These YouTube examples describe how to design a building with circles & an app or website with wireframes
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5. Design with inspiration boards
What are the images that relate to your project?
Create an inspiration board with all the images that visually describe your project ideas
Sometimes referred to as design boards or mood boards
Create an inspiration board with all the images that visually describe your project ideas
Sometimes referred to as design boards or mood boards
6. Design considering culture
What are the cultural references that relate to your project?
This example is how Maori culture inspired the Auckland City Rail Link's award winning design
This example is how Maori culture inspired the Auckland City Rail Link's award winning design
7. Design with patterns
What are the contexts of your project?
Find inspiration by the patterns of fine details that relate to your project
This example is the texture of an elephants trunk, duplicated, mirrored & line drawn
Find inspiration by the patterns of fine details that relate to your project
This example is the texture of an elephants trunk, duplicated, mirrored & line drawn
8. Be inspired from design era's throughout history
What design era inspires your project design?
9. Design by iteration
"Iterative" means doing something again and again, usually to improve it.
Show iterative improvement of your project throughout the design process
Test your ideas by constantly getting feedback from others to improve the design of the project
This example shows iterative technology design of the wheel, from stone to wood to rubber to 3D printed to airless
Show iterative improvement of your project throughout the design process
Test your ideas by constantly getting feedback from others to improve the design of the project
This example shows iterative technology design of the wheel, from stone to wood to rubber to 3D printed to airless
10. Design by 3D modelling
Visualise your design ideas in 3 dimensions.
Use 3D modelling software to visualise your project ideas and drawings in 3D
There are lots of 3D modelling software's including Tinkercad, Sketchup, SculptGL, Minecraft
Use 3D modelling software to visualise your project ideas and drawings in 3D
There are lots of 3D modelling software's including Tinkercad, Sketchup, SculptGL, Minecraft
11. Design by process
Do market research, prototype ideas, be innovative, offer design solutions.
These YouTube videos illustrate the Design Thinking process
These YouTube videos illustrate the Design Thinking process
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12. Design by presenting ideas as a Pecha Kucha
Pecha Kucha ~ the Japanese translation for 'chit-chat' ~ "talk less, show more".
A concise format to present ideas only using 20 images onscreen for 20 seconds per image
Present project design idea images as a Pecha Kucha to get feedback from others
www.pechakucha.com & www.pechakucha.co.nz
A concise format to present ideas only using 20 images onscreen for 20 seconds per image
Present project design idea images as a Pecha Kucha to get feedback from others
www.pechakucha.com & www.pechakucha.co.nz
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