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Documenting Your Design Process

The document outlines the requirements for a 1000-word academic piece on the design process, due April 30, 2020. It provides guidelines for students with existing design projects and those conducting case studies on existing products, detailing the necessary components such as problem statements, research synthesis, design descriptions, and personal takeaways. Additionally, it includes a rubric for grading based on content and clarity.

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Documenting Your Design Process

The document outlines the requirements for a 1000-word academic piece on the design process, due April 30, 2020. It provides guidelines for students with existing design projects and those conducting case studies on existing products, detailing the necessary components such as problem statements, research synthesis, design descriptions, and personal takeaways. Additionally, it includes a rubric for grading based on content and clarity.

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Documenting the Design Process

Due April 30, 2020

You will be writing 1000 words regarding your design process (~4 pages
double-spaced). This is a descriptive piece of writing – taking what you did,
describing it and synthesizing it for an audience. It doesn’t need to include
every detail, but should provide enough detail for someone to reasonably
replicate your work.

This will be treated as a piece of academic writing – so remember to focus on


clear and concise language and proper sentence structure. You can write in
first

For students using their own, existing design project:


1. State the overall problem the design is trying to solve
2. Describe your research process and include the findings of your
benchmarking
3. Walk the reader through your design process. What did you do? When
did you ask for feedback? How did you improve or iterate upon the
design through your process. Use visuals (screenshots, photos,
sketches) to describe this in more detail.
4. Describe your final product. What is it? If you had 2-3 sentences to
describe it, what would they be?
5. What’s your main takeaway? You answered this question in the project
scoping document – but now you can elaborate on it and share your
own learnings as well (what did you learn? What can you take away
with you to the next project?)
6. Looking back, how might you improve the design? Did you receive any
external feedback? What would the iteration look like?
7. For your research, please cite any articles/websites you looked at using
MLA citations.
8. Format this in a word document for now.

Rubric – This will be graded on content.


Component Points
What’s the problem? 10
What’s the research and context? 20
What’s the process? 30
Describe your final product. 15
Main takeaway 15
Feedback/improvement 10

For students who do not have a design project to work off of:
You will be taking an existing product and diving into it to present a
case study for your final project.
1) State the overall problem the product is trying to solve
2) Synthesize the research you did in the previous homework assignment
by both looking at the research that exists and any additional research
that you do
3) Describe the design and its features – what is it? What does it do? Use
visuals (screenshots, photos, drawings) to illustrate your point.
4) If you were to improve one part of this design, what would you
improve? Why?
5) What’s your main takeaway/learning from going through this process?
6) For your research, please cite any articles/websites you looked at using
MLA citations.
7) Format this in a word document for now.

Rubric: this will be graded on content.


Component Points
What’s the problem? 10
What’s the research and context? 15
Describe the design/features. 25
Improvement? 35
Main takeaway 15

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