CCT204H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Graphic Design, Communication Problems, Rolex
21 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
CCT204H5F - DESIGN THINKING I (SUMMER 2018)
University of Toronto Mississauga | Sheridan College
Professor Ann Donor
QUIZ 1 NOTES
Jonathan Ho
Lecture 1
Areas of Design - Visual, Industrial, Interior/Spatial/Environment, Activities/Services
Provides framework of understanding and exploring materials, methods and principles of
design thinking
Integrative Thinking - 2 or more opposing ideas
transformed into a creative resolution
ie. Snow Wuffle (Bicycle with a shovel)
Innovation - Something newly invented or a new way of
doing things
- Incremental vs. Breakthrough
- Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary
●Incremental - Making small changes from the
existing design; done in small increments
●Breakthrough - No precedent; significantly different from the existing/original design
Visualization and Sketching - Before you start sketching, you need to visualize your idea. Allow you
to see things that you can't visualize
Constraints - Things that stop you from going further; limitations (ie. budget, monitoring constraints)
Jorge Frascara (4) Kinds of Design:
1. Design to Support Life
Promote and ensure health and safety (ie. industrial safety, health education, traffic safety)
2. Design to Facilitate Life
Task Oriented Design; help us do things faster, better, more easily, more efficiently
ie. Salad Spinner, Kitchen Equipment, Microwave, Scissors
3. Design to Improve Life
Focuses on human dimensions; Spiritually, culturally, humour, pleasure, beauty
ie. Furniture, enjoyable books, solutions to difficult communication problems
4. Inconsequential Design (Exclusively Commercial Design)
Design oriented at supporting corporation A against corporation B
Useful in market economy; affects success of individual business and creates jobs for people
Richard Buchanan (4) Areas of Design:
1. Design by symbolic and visual communications
Graphic design (typography, advertising, illustration), photography, film
Communications Design -
Communicating info, ideas and arguments
through a new synthesis of words and images
2. Design of material objects
Everyday products, visual appearance and interpretation of the physical,
social, cultural relationships between products and human beings
3. Design of activities and organized services
Management concern for logistics, logical decision making, strategic
planning
Central theme of connections and consequences
4. Design of complex systems or environments for living, working,
playing and learning
Role of design in sustaining, developing and integrating human beings
into broader ecological and cultural environments
Document Summary
Areas of design - visual, industrial, interior/spatial/environment, activities/services. Provides framework of understanding and exploring materials, methods and principles of design thinking. Integrative thinking - 2 or more opposing ideas transformed into a creative resolution ie. snow wuffle (bicycle with a shovel) Innovation - something newly invented or a new way of doing things. Incremental - making small changes from the. Breakthrough - no precedent; significantly different from the existing/original design existing design; done in small increments. Visualization and sketching - before you start sketching, you need to visualize your idea. Allow you to see things that you can"t visualize. Constraints - things that stop you from going further; limitations (ie. budget, monitoring constraints) Jorge frascara (4) kinds of design: design to support life. Promote and ensure health and safety (ie. industrial safety, health education, traffic safety: design to facilitate life.
