Monday, August 16, 2010

For Sec1: Design Opportunities

Hi,

1. What do you understand by 'design opportunities'?

2. Why is it important as a designer to work on any design opportunity?

Below shows two pictures of a place and a product which have numerous design opportunities for you, a designer.

Pic #1



Pic #2:



3. How is 'understanding problem and finding the needs of the user' related to finding design opportunities?

4. What are the design problems you could identify in the two pics that lead to a good design opportunity? Discuss...

Assignment:

1. Find a picture of a situation or product from the newspapers, magazines, internet or you may want to take a photo. Discuss what are the potential design problems you can identify in the pics that lead to design opportunities?

2. Based on the problems you have identified, suggest ways, through sketching, that may lead to good design solution.

7 comments:

  1. picture 1 - It's too messy. too many bicycles

    picture 2 - the clothes might easily slip off from the clothes hanger.

    -jingjing 1/3

    ReplyDelete
  2. picture 1 - it is not well organised

    picture 2- clothes might slip off easily

    -shermine 1/3

    ReplyDelete
  3. P1 - Too many bicycles. Can easily lost you bicycles.

    P2 - Clothes will easily slip off

    -Huisee , 1/3

    ReplyDelete
  4. pic 1-Too many bicycles and the place is very messy.

    Pic 2-Clothes may slip off easily.


    -Faiz Wahid , 1/3

    ReplyDelete
  5. picture 1- this place is too messy and might cause the bicycle owner difficulty in finding their own bicycle.

    picture 2- cloths will slip off easily

    Amanda poh , 1/3

    ReplyDelete
  6. picture 1-too messy and unorganized, bicycle owner might lose their bicycle easily

    picture 2-not much support, clothe may slip off easily

    Jason Loh, 1/3

    ReplyDelete
  7. Picture 1 - Place is unorganized,bicycle may be stolen,hard for owner to identify his bicycle.


    Picture 2 - Clothes will easily slip off.


    Jun Wei , 1/3

    ReplyDelete