[A] ✅DESIGN AND CREATIVE SOLVING TECHNIQUES ✅

Design

Involves careful, organized, and systematic logical thinking and planning

Designer

The person who devises or executes designs

Fulfillment of human satisfaction

What is the primary purpose of design?

Intuitive Techniques

It is based on the principle of free association and gives no restriction to imagination. It puts quantity over quality

Brainstorming

Directly approaches the subconscious creative part of the human mind. It sets no limit to imagination and purposely suspends reason and logical thinking

Brainwriting

Aimed at increasing the output from brainstorming

Synectics

Combines different, seemingly unrelated elements

Delphi Method

Generates new ideas by solving the problem in a riddle-like or puzzle-like technique

Inversion

Instead of thinking about how you can improve a situation, think about how you could make it worse

Description by Association

Instead of offering a description of something by recording what you read in the dictionary, associate it with something else, preferably something familiar (ex: bike and bike seat)

Logical or Systematic Technique

Based on the principle of splitting up the problem into sub-problems and solving them one by one

Morphology

Redefines the problem first to an underlying more basic problem and the split up its elements into sub-problems; uses a morphologic box or table to find a new combination

Bionics

Systematically examines and analyzes objects of nature for possible adaptation

Functional Visualization

Instead of thinking about what an object will look like, think about what function it will perform; form follows function

Problem Area Analysis and Functional Analysis

A comprehensive problem is split up into more and more minute sub-problems until the whole problem has become a network of interrelated problems

(1) Utilitarian Requirements
(2) Bodily Comfort

The first factors for well-designed furniture

Historical and Cultural Factor

Designing for the present would need a familiarization of the past culture and the present trend

Aesthetic Consideration

To make designs visually pleasing

Structural Form Development

This makes use of the basic outline of the furniture as a grid

Morphological Form Development

Makes use of previous designs as basis for improvement

Geometric Form Development

Variations on geometric forms - size, shape, color, proportion, mass, number or arrangement can spark new ideas

Form Development Based on Nature

Nature offers immense possibilities of new ideas for design

Form Development Based on Various Sources

Based on various sources other than nature