Design Thinking

What is design?

• difference between

  • Analysis (i.e study/observe)
  • investigation (i.e. inquire)
  • design (i.e. Synthesis)

• design Vocabulary

  • Functonal requirement:

    • What the device has to do

  • Design Parameters:

    • what you can vary to meet the requirements

  • Constraints

    • restrictions

• Design Stages

  • 1. Desgin involves a progression from the conceptual:

    • “should our power source be x or y”

  • 2. through an intermediate stage aka configuration

    • “should the x be b strong or a strong”

  • 3. to the final stage of filling in the numbers on the engineering drawings “detail design”

    • “shoudl these be xcm bolts or 2.8 do?”

• Objective Functions

  • the overall goodness of the design

    • out come should be quantifiable

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• Double-Diamond model

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Science vs Engineering

• Science

  • looks at what is and asks why?
  • if the universe is in state X, what happens next?
    • (adapted from G.B. Shaw, Back to methuselah)

• Engineering

  • dreams of what has never been, and asks “why not?”
  • if I want the univerese to be in state x, what must happen first
    • (Ross TenEyck)