This week was a short week for classes, thanks to Martin Luther King Jr.! We spent the majority of class over viewing the design cycle and processes. Although there is a long process with many steps to come to and result, "design is never finished." There is always more you can re-evaluate or fix up. Once a product hits the market, you begin redesigning it or starting the next best thing. This may seem a bit tiresome to think about, a field with no solid finalization. However, it is rather amazing! An area of human culture that is always evolving! Our brains must be so intelligent that we are never satisfied until we can create the next best thing.
Also in class we watched "the Deep Dive" where I recorded a number of useful ideas, such as "a playful person is an innovative person" and "enlightened trial and error is greater than the lone genius." I loved the inventors' work spaces with toys and gadgets everywhere along with the wall of ideas full of sketchy post-it notes (which were invented by mistake!) I hope to make my work space like that someday! Although, I will definitely need to keep focused and not play with all the toys...
