Tuesday 18 October 2011

Peer Comments







Rationale


The design of the light is modern and classical inspire by the organic shapes and enhanced by the naturally organic nature the material takes once it has been cut into strips. After experimenting with techniques such as weaving I decided to keep the material unchanged and work with it naturally. Through the design of many different prototypes and experimenting with different sizes and shapes I was able to decide on the right thickness and length of the strips that would be most suitable and incorporate into my final design. The roll of material I used was coloured with a great shade of blue, which further enhanced the organic nature of my design   Tabs were used to connect the strips so no other type of new material needed to be incorporated. Each roll of material is capable of making 3 lights. In assembly the light takes about 30 minutes to assemble, and if the instructions are followed correctly it should be quite easy to assemble. With 15% usage, the light may be slightly wasteful, however, the fact that not much material is used for each and every light made, allows for each sheet of material to make 3 lights.

Monday 26 September 2011

What is Design

Bill Moggridge talks about what design is in general ranging from architecture to graphic design to fashion to interaction design and interior design. He talks about some of the processes and what is changing in design. Moggridge demonstrates how without bad design we wouldn’t be able to identify what a good design it. Examples of good and bad designs are shown as the video demonstrates how bad designers do not understand the design process. The key factors in the design process are understanding people and prototyping.
Understanding people: design starts with the people part of the design then come towards the solution for business and technology from a people pint of view to get good innovation. It is important to design for other people and not for one’s self.
>> Ways to find out the needs and wants of people include: 
-          Learn -analysing information that you have collected
-          Observational
-          Asking –engaging people
-          Try -experiment, build it yourself
>> Prototyping can be a sketch, an enactment etc
-          Inspire
-          Evolve
-          Validate
Moggridge talks about the way design has been changing also know as expanding contexts which include individual people, the built environment and the world that surrounds us all together. Designers used to be concerned with designing things and actual products, however, there has been a change in the context which has expanded to looking at people in a whole-istic way- thinking about health and wellbeing.