OUGD504 | STUDIO BRIEF 1 | STUDY TASK 1

For our first study task we were in groups and we had to document on a large sheet what we thought the main stages of the design process was, then create an infographic to showcase this. We decided to take a literal approach to this, starting off with waking up in the morning. We moved onto the brief, which included reading the brief in full and making notes. You should analyse the brief and make sure you know what problems need to be solved.

Once you're confident with the brief, its time to move onto research. Primary and secondary research should be conducted, e.g. questionnaires and reading books/looking on the internet. At this stage it's also important to consider the budget and timescales for the project. This may include speaking with the client and agreeing on deliverables.

After the deliverables have been agreed and signed off, it's time to move over to creating some initial ideas. Sketches, lists, mind maps and discussions are included in this stage. At this point its quite back and forth between the stages as you need to get feedback and develop your ideas. It's important to get feedback from the client and make sure you're designing something that's suitable for the brief.

Once you have a solid idea and feedback from the client, you should start to develop your ideas digitally or physically depending on your approach. Once you have a finalized idea, you should get it approved by the client and start to focus on the production of the design.

Looking back over the budget, you should make sure the stock choices and printing processes don't exceed the set amount. Once a stock and process has been chosen, you can print and present your finished work to the client.

The infographic that we made was quite a linear approach. We included some drawings of what is included throughout the design process, but looking at what other people made, it became clear that sometimes within the design process we need to refer back to stages. Also, people don't do the same stage at the same time, so we should have catered for that within the infographic.