My Experience With the Design Cycle

Over the last couple of weeks we have been working with the design cycle in order to make a final project. First we started with the investigate part, where we needed to research quotes, lyrics, and poems, and then make 30 pages with those copy and pasted. Afterwards we needed to chose the top choices of each and then from those three top choices chose the one that we could use to make a whole project out of. I chose the lyrics of a song that I thought was really meaningful. Afterwards, we had to do the design specifications and the design brief that helped us understand what we really wanted to do with our project. After the investigate comes design where we needed to create 5 designs for the project, here what I did was various ideas, but then I resolved to chose another idea instead of the ones I had had before. This is where you needed to justify your chosen design with the design specifications, to see if what you were doing was on the right track or not, and where you justified any changes made to the original design specifications. Afterwards comes the plan, where you write how you are going to create your project, meaning the process or steps you are going to follow in order to make a the design specifications work on the chosen design. This is a very simple step, where you only needed to write a justification on what you were going to do and how you were going to do it. The second to last step is the create step, that is perhaps the most important step of the whole design cycle, where you use the design specifications, the chosen design, and the plan, in order to make that final product that you are going to present to the class or the school. This step is the step that took the most of the time, because it’s where we needed to do the whole thing and it really took a long time to get all of the details you wanted and things like that. Also something that I haven’t done yet in the create step is a justification with photos or a video, that needs to be posted on our blog. Finally the final step that we haven’t done yet is the evaluate step, that we will do this Friday.