8. Streamlining your search
product AND design
USA OR America
design*
Cork NOT Ireland
-Amazon
“Festival of Britain”
+Ideo or “IDEO”
Define: “paper prototyping”
James Dyson invented *
Scandinavian site: design OR “Scandinavian design” site: ac
Related:www.designcouncil.org.uk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_miley/2614472057/
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Editor's Notes
Session all about curiosity and being a good designer.
Iceberg picture will make more sense later on.
In session 1 we looked at this.
Your finished product (or essay, project etc) is just the tip of the iceberg.
Below it is should be loads of research ie. looking at theory and facts, being inspired, getting ideas, stimulating your imagination etc.
Limited research = less creativity.
Finished design might not be as good as it could be.
Find out as much as you can.
Question, discuss, be inspired, think etc
Whole group: What can you see in the picture? ie. fruit
If you type ‘fruit’ into database will get millions of hits, how can you break it down ie. search for something more specific to get more manageable results
Can you be more specific ie.
Type of fruit: apples, oranges, bananas etc
Location: Stall, market, outdoor market, fruit market, Britain
Detail: boxes, signs, astroturf, prices, colour of fruit, lights, pound £ signs, special offer etc
People in background: old, young, male, female > stall holder, customers, browsers etc
Think of related subjects eg.
retail, commercial, financial, point-of-sale
Shopping, shops, fish/meat/clothes market, shopping centres, high street
Town, city, centre, British town
Nutrition: vits and mins
Also which fruits have a double meaning (technical/computer sense)?:
Orange, Apple, Blackberry, Raspberry.
Use refining tools on databases or search tips to exclude what you don’t want.
Thinking beyond the obvious, looking for the detail that might make a difference.
Discuss the ways that you can control your search (can be used on all sorts of databases including the Internet):
product AND design (narrow)
USA OR America (Broaden)
design* (Broaden)
Cork NOTIreland (Exclude)
-Amazon (Exclude)
“Festival of Britain” (Phrase)
+Ideo or “IDEO” (Exact match)
Define: “paper prototyping” (Phrase)
James Dyson invented * (Fill in the blanks)
Scandinavian site: design or “Scandinavian design” site: ac (Search within specific sites with specified subject or domain eg. design or academic
Related:www.designcouncil.org.uk (Web pages that have similar content to the given site)
Hand out worksheets to small groups. Ideally more than one group should have the same image so that we can compare the search results. Each worksheet displays one of these images, plus a variety of questions (see below):
What is it?
Words you can use to describe it....think big, detail etc
Alternative words/spellings
Related subjects
Start to research the image/topic on the Internet:
List 5 interesting/surprising facts about the image/topic
Describe how you found these facts
Feedback after.
Other places to look for inspiration.
More Google Image stuff.
Description: Worth Global Style Network Homebuildlife is an online trend forecasting and product design tool for the industrial design, home and interiors market across 16 product categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles, interiors, garden design
Subject Scope: Interiors, product design, packaging, texitles, marketing, trends, forecasting, business strategy, trade news, trade shows
Another place to look.
Lecturer will now introduce real student project.
Each student given an ecosystem to research eg. Forest, ocean etc.
They need to identify an animal which lives in this environment and design for it. See project brief.
Start research in class if time.
