The Design Process is a system for organising creative thinking. Discuss.

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The Design Process is a system for organising creative thinking. Discuss.

I agree with this statement because I think the design process has evolved naturally to meet a need generated when creative thinking becomes too vague and non-progressive. It is a means for organising imaginative and visionary ideas by enforcing certain restraints upon designers to make their creative and stimulating ideas into actual feasible design ideas and proposals.

The statement defines the design process as a "system". This is a good description of the process (which is a soft/ or information system) as it is a very methodical, systematic technique, made up of component parts (typical of a system). The "system" of thought processes encourages a creative mind to think logically, and more progressively.

The component parts in the Design Process are: foremost, responding to a need. This is a very important part of the process as it will determine right at the beginning of developing a product, whether the product is economically feasible - whether it is likely to have good selling potential. There is no point in developing a product which no-one will buy - so identifying a 'real-life problem' in need of