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Design processes and management in digital public space
Published in Naomi Jacobs, Rachel Cooper, Living in Digital Worlds, 2018
In 2005 the UK Design Council consolidated models of the design process through a study of global companies and arrived at the highly cited Double Diamond (Design Council 2016) – see Figure 9.2. The Double Diamond divides the design process into four phases; Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver. It maps the divergent and convergent stages of the design process, showing the different modes of thinking that designers use. It is essentially focused on design but also illustrates the connection to the whole development team.
An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Design
Published in Graham A. Ormondroyd, Angela F. Morris, Designing with Natural Materials, 2018
Referring back to the Design Council’s design process double diamond, the process outlines four main stages: Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver. While designers are familiar with this type of process and phases, they are also relevant to designers when they are considering natural materials.
Design innovation
Published in Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel Cooper, Design for Health, 2017
The Double Diamond again demonstrates the divergent-convergent nature of the design process and breaks this into four stages: ‘Discover’ insight into the problem, ‘Define’ the area to focus upon, ‘Develop’ potential solutions and ‘Deliver’ solutions that work.
Development of a scenario-based instrument to assess co-design expertise in humanitarian engineering
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
In terms of design process, multiple models have been proposed that share many similarities and some differences. For instance, Sianipar et al. (2013) propose a design methodology for appropriate technologies that includes four stages. It starts with the planning stage, focused on understanding stakeholders’ requirements, and finishes with the assessing stage, focused on evaluating the developed technology. Others have included more steps, unpacking the design process in greater detail (e.g. Drain, Shekar, and Grigg 2017; Engineers without Borders Australia 2019; Murcott 2007; Sianipar et al. 2013; Ssozi-Mugarura, Blake, and Rivett 2017). Nonetheless, all design processes cover more or less the same range of activities, although providing different names. This can be seen clearly in Figure 1, where these different processes have been set out such that vertically aligned design phases cover similar activities. The only exceptions are perhaps Murcott (2007) and Drain, Shekar, and Grigg (2017), who add an implementation stage that goes beyond the last stage of other proposed design processes. While the processes presented in Figure 1 were specifically developed for HE or similar projects, they also align with traditional design processes, such as the double diamond, which includes four phases: discover, define, develop, and deliver (Design Council 2019).