Praxis I: Design Brief
Overview: This project was the first in a 3-phase Praxis I design project. This phase largely focused on step one of the design process – the problem definition stage. The assignment guidelines can be found here.
Team: Daniel Gen Li, Amy Miao, Toluwanimi Odemuyiwa, Jack Xue
Process in Action: Instead of having a need or problem definition already given to us, we were required to find for ourselves a need and modify it into a problem definition. As it turns out, finding a legitimate need required a lot of brainstorming and idea generation, then looking for current solutions to the problem to determine if it had a large enough design solution space. In our actual design brief, the first part “Background,” is an outline of the need, while the rest of the document – overview of previous solutions, stakeholders, criteria and constraints, constitute the actual problem definition. Our resulting problem statement was “The primary goal of this design is to eliminate moisture and liquid from personal electronic devices in a shorter time period than current solutions, and prevent any further damage to the
devices.” The feedback we received from this assignment indicated that our criteria, stakeholders, and constraints were not specific enough, and that since there are already so many design solutions to the problem, we were restricting the solution space for designers tackling this problem.
The Design Brief can be accessed here.
Team: Daniel Gen Li, Amy Miao, Toluwanimi Odemuyiwa, Jack Xue
Process in Action: Instead of having a need or problem definition already given to us, we were required to find for ourselves a need and modify it into a problem definition. As it turns out, finding a legitimate need required a lot of brainstorming and idea generation, then looking for current solutions to the problem to determine if it had a large enough design solution space. In our actual design brief, the first part “Background,” is an outline of the need, while the rest of the document – overview of previous solutions, stakeholders, criteria and constraints, constitute the actual problem definition. Our resulting problem statement was “The primary goal of this design is to eliminate moisture and liquid from personal electronic devices in a shorter time period than current solutions, and prevent any further damage to the
devices.” The feedback we received from this assignment indicated that our criteria, stakeholders, and constraints were not specific enough, and that since there are already so many design solutions to the problem, we were restricting the solution space for designers tackling this problem.
The Design Brief can be accessed here.
