APS111H1 Study Guide - Reverse Engineering, Project A, Problem Solving
21 Jun 2013
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It is a systematic, intelligent process in which designers generate, evaluate and specify designs for devices, systems or processes whose forms and functions achieve clients" objectives and users" needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints: form. The shape and structure of something as distinguished from its material: function. The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists. Functions are what the designed device, system or process is supposed to do, the actions that it must perform. Note: function can be deduced from form, but form can not be deduced from function: objective. Something toward which effort is directed; an aim or end of action. Objectives are expressions of the attributes and behavior that the client or potential users would like to see in a designed system or device. They are normally expressed as what the design should be : constraint.
