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PROJET 4: DESIGN FOR FORM & STORY BRIEF

Instruction:
Title: Design Futures - 21st Century Form and Story • Select a category from the by Design Series as a start point for further

research .

• Engage initial pilot research to scope and establish opportunity; to undertake

an Industrial Design action.
Objectives:

• Identification of opportunity; via pilot study. • Using Design Process Framework for guidance, commence your research.
• Research & evidence for user requirement. • In proposing your final Industrial Design solution, attention MUST focus

• Identify/apply relevant sectorial, commercial regulative on form and detailing, but include:
limitations & constraints.

• Design hypothesis / Design brief. . user experience/interface (UX/UI), features & functions etc.,

• Story-telling; through form & detail. . component specification, manufacture, assembly etc.,
• Personal aesthetic; surface styling & form-factor. . material and finishes etc.,

• End-to-end Design process implementation. . PSS, environment, product context, installation, maintenance etc.

• Document decision & rationale; plan/manage/report.

Background:

Your role as a designer within society is not limited in responding simply to
commercial imperatives. Design skills acquired can be used to propose solution to

complex problems. This project aims to provide you opportunity to engage and use Design Series:

your Design and creative skills to explore, initiate and design a tangible product that Active Aging
addresses a problem. The objective is to propose and design an individual product Developed economies are experiencing a reversal in

which communicates its purpose and use through form and story.
demographic and social composition (pyramid model).

. The project specifically seeks to explore and develop your personal sense of This change in demographic and an urbanised pattern of
Industrial Design aesthetic in form factor through design artefact. Over the 14 weeks habitation is resulting in shift in a traditional social interaction

of the project, you are required to progress through design process cycle as follows:

- Pilot research, identify & define opportunity to engage Industrial Design process. for our aging communities.
- Control, plan & manage design process.

- Sketch, model, test and specify for an emotionally rich & sustainable product. • Target product opportunity to enhance life for this

- Develop staged outputs in ‘Design Book’ format. increasingly healthy and wealthy demographic.