Design Process
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- Created on: 25-04-16 11:43
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- Design Process
- The Client
- An individual or a group who identify a need or niche that could be met by developing a new product
- Often entrepreneurs seeking to make money by launching a new product into the market
- Will be the person or group who commissions a designer(s) to develop a product
- The Designer
- An individual or group who will work to develop a product for a client
- The designer, with the client, will develop a design brief and design specification
- Marketing department: tell designer exactly what user wants
- Product manager: people who monitor the progress of a product's development & ensure product meets client's needs
- Inventors
- An individual or group who produce ideas for new or improved products
- Have to be communicated in visual form such as sketches and models
- Product designers might take an idea created by inventor and develop it into a product that will sell well
- The designer-maker
- Describes the individuals who design a product and then make it
- Examples include craft workers such as potters, jewellery makers, costume makers
- Associated with small scale production
- One off high quality pieces specifically designed for an individual
- Makers
- Makers are the people who will manufacture the product that has been designed
- Could be an independent company
- Global Manufacturing
- modern-day industrial practice of designing in one part of the world and manufacturing the product in another where materials and labour costs may be cheaper
- Users
- Individual or group that will make use of the product developed by the designer
- Researchers and designer may work with user groups within target market to identify specific features required in the product
- The Client
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