activity 1.4 - product improvement
This activity is designed to provide an introduction to design. As a team of two, you will brainstorm ways to enhance or change a plain white beverage container so that nearly every consumer would want to purchase it.
conclusion questions
1. What factors must be considered when changing or enhancing a design?
Performance, compatibility, quality, materials, and usefulness
2. Why it is important to document the brainstorming process?
To get all of the ideas you can, good or not, into one large database so you can use them to create
even better ideas and better products.
3. What is the purpose of sketching your ideas?
To better visualize your ideas and how items are predicted to look.
4. What effective or ineffective techniques did the group speaker use to communicate your idea to the class?
Effective: Clearly described the purpose of our product.
Ineffective: Not a clear script, quickly written.
Performance, compatibility, quality, materials, and usefulness
2. Why it is important to document the brainstorming process?
To get all of the ideas you can, good or not, into one large database so you can use them to create
even better ideas and better products.
3. What is the purpose of sketching your ideas?
To better visualize your ideas and how items are predicted to look.
4. What effective or ineffective techniques did the group speaker use to communicate your idea to the class?
Effective: Clearly described the purpose of our product.
Ineffective: Not a clear script, quickly written.