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What is a Design Brief and why do we
have them?
You are a designer! You have a job to
do! Your job is to solve problems and come up with new products that help and
make life more enjoyable or easy!
Every designer starts there process
with a problem, something they want to deal with and resolve!
Your project outline and brief should
identify what you are going to do and maybe why you have chosen to approach
this task (what is the need for doing what you are doing?).
So what am I getting at? I am trying to
say that you must pretend that you are a designer and that you have a problem
to solve. You must understand that you are making a product that will satisfy
need. You must identify who your product will be made for (who is going to buy
it?).
Your product must be realistic and you
must always refer back to the fact that you are practicing to be a designer so
that you can go and work as a designer when you leave school. So you need to
start thinking about what really happens in the design world! This will help
you understand the course you are studying!
How can I make a design brief for my
product?
Write about what your product is going to be, what its
going to do and who you are going to make it for.
What problems is your product going to solve (example,,
you have a problem: you don’t have time to water your greenhouse or make
sure that it is not getting to hot,, you come up with an idea for an automatic
system that waters your plants when they are dry and turns on a fan when it
gets too hot >> you have solved the problem with an electronic product)
You can give a rough idea within your design brief of how you
think your product will function (function means how something works/what it
does)
Take a look at a good example of a design brief to help
you understand how this document is worded and roughly how long it should be (for
the purpose of our coursework).