15/5:4

1. List the tasks you’ve worked on this week.

• Reviewed the IRB packet sent by Dr. Clinton'

• Established some early design parameters

• Examined a variety of modal composition options

• Drafted a design brief with these parameters

• Delivered design brief and received confirmation from the client

X Related prior experience

Using previous experiences to generate ideas for the design task

X Client/stakeholders/users

Considering the perspective of the clients, stakeholders, and the end users

X Available time

Finding ways to allocate sufficient time to each design task

3. For each item you checked above, describe any difficulties or concerns you encountered, the actions you took to deal with them, and your future plans in this particular area.

The vision for any design I am working on is set fairly early in terms of basic themes and aesthetics. The most interesting and exciting part of the design process is realizing that vision and then using your abilities and inspiration to take it beyond the original vision in a way only the creation and build process can. As we attend to the typical design planning tasks, it becomes largely ceremonial to the ultimate demands of the creative process at hand. As artists, we understand this relationship, and as designers we learn to deliver exemplary work as a result. This is absolutely the most satisfying goal, to have the vision of the original design solution serve the ultimate terminal goals beyond what we might have hoped. So this outcome is always the goal.

Early drafts and prototypes will provide rough sketches of this vision, and it can often be exciting to see some of the design come to life.