Week 2: Information Architecture
The Design Process
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Key Terms & Concepts
- Dieter Rams
A highly celebrated product designer best known for his long career at Braun. See Wikipedia
- Damien Newman
Best known for creating the Design Process Squiggle, Damien worked at IDEO and frog design before founding the firm Central. He also teaches at Stanford.
- User-centered design
- Activity-centered design
- Process-centered design
- Empathic design
- Divergent Thinking
Divergent thinking pertains to any method that encourages broad exploration in order to generate creative ideas.
- Convergent Thinking
Convergent thinking pertains to any method that focuses on a team coming up with a single, agreed-upon solution.
- Double Diamond Model
The underlying design process framework shared by many design organizations, as discovered by research done by The Design Council. See PDF
- Paul Rand
One of the most famous graphic designers, especially known for creating timeless, iconic logos for corporations including IBM, UPS, Enron, ABC, and others.
- Charles Eames
Along with his wife Ray, iconic product designer most known for designing furniture for Herman Miller. See Wikipedia
- Five Whys Technique
An iterative question-asking technique used to discover the root cause of a problem. See Wikipedia