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Unit 3: Designing with empathy
Quick questions on Ideation and design strategies (QCE Design Unit 3)
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What is the two movements of ideation?Show answer
Good ideation alternates between two opposite modes. Divergent thinking generates many possibilities and defers judgement; convergent thinking evaluates and selects. The classic mistake is to converge too early - to judge an idea before enough alternatives exist. Strong designers consciously separate the modes: generate first, judge later.
What is divergent strategies (breadth)?Show answer
These strategies are designed to break habitual thinking and produce a wide range of options:
What is convergent strategies (selection)?Show answer
Once breadth exists, convergent strategies apply the design criteria to choose:
What is visualising ideas during ideation?Show answer
Ideation is not purely verbal. Quick annotated sketches, thumbnails and rough models externalise ideas so they can be compared and built upon. Visualising early and roughly is faster and cheaper than describing, and it surfaces problems an idea hides in words. This links ideation directly to the visualisation dot point.
What is documenting ideation for assessment?Show answer
In QCE Design the folio must show the ideation, not just the winner. Markers look for:
What are three near-identical sketches?Show answer
A genuine range means distinct concepts, not minor styling tweaks of one idea.
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