1. Topic 1 The Design Process

2. The Design Cycle

3. Six Stages of the Design Cycle 1.Identifying or clarifying a need or opportunity The Design Brief 2.Analyzing, researching and specifying the requirements Design Specification

4. Six Stages of the Design Cycle 3.Generating ideas and solutions 4.Developing solutions 5.Chosen Solution / Realizing the solution 6.Testing and evaluation Task: The Design Process – What is a design brief?

6. The Design Cycle Look at some case studies of designers working in real life situations

7. Get in the hot seat Task Ask one question at a time in an attempt to guess who the inventor is, and what the invention is

8. Inventor of the Modern Computer The First Freely Programmable Computer invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936

9. First PlayStation The history of the Playstation begins in 1988 when Sony and Nintendo were working together to develop the Super Disc.Nintendo

10. ARPAnet - The First Internet On a cold war kind of day, in swinging 1969, work began on the ARPAnet, grandfather to the Internet.