Good Design is...

1. Innovative 2. Useful 3. Aesthetic 4. Understandable 5. Honest 6. Long Lasting 7. Thorough to last detail 8. Environmentally Friendly 9. Little Design 10. Unobtrusive

(Methods, Media, Materials) Materials

- Paper - Card - Textiles - Metal - Plastic - Glass - Touchscreen - Digitial Interface

(Methods, Media, Materials) Media

- Pencil, Ink, Markers, Paint, Analogue film - Software, apps, online platforms (Graphic game or interaction design, web development, concept art, illustration, three dimensional modelling and rendering, photo editing and animation

(Methods, Media, Materials) Methods

- Drawing - Collage - Printing - Photography - Model making - Prototyping

Gestalt Principles

- Proximity - Continuity - Similarity - Closure - Common Fate - Figure Ground - Focal Point

Design Principles

- Figure Ground - Balance - Contrast - Cropping - Heirarchy - Scale - Proportion - Pattern (Repitition and Alternation)

Design Elements

- Point - Line - Shape - Form - Tone - Texture - Colour - Type

Fields of Design

- Messages - Objects - Environments - Interactive Experiences

Human Centred Research

- Field Observations - Co-Design - Surveys - Focus Groups - Co-Creation

Convergent Thinking Strategies

- PMI - Brand Making - SWOT