INT-1300 Lecture 4: 9/20 Design Matters
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To recognize and evaluate good design requires critical assessments of an environmental or product. Such assessment should be integral to your own design process. Design theories offer criteria for discrimination as they have been proven over time. Understanding a theory in design puts that experience behind the argument you construct a given theory. Learning to distinguish the best idea from a variety of choices is crucial to becoming an effective designer. Think and speak descriptively and analytically about the subject of your critique. Assets the meaning you can begin to interp the design. Based on description and interpretation judgment can be made in identifying the best idea. Apply these three steps first to the concept of a design and continually reapply them down to the level of its details. It is important to the concept of a design and continually reapply them down to the level of its details. Asking for and receiving criticism is fundamental to design.
