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Design analysis, Design Poker

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 10, 2013

Yesterday, after flipping through several hundred photos of couture dresses, I selected fourteen that struck my eye. They weren’t designs I would want to use, necessarily, but each of them had one or more features that drew my attention. So this morning I went through them and did a bit of design analysis. I had [...]

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Design principles

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 22, 2012

I’m currently writing the section in my book blog on design principles, and since it would take far too long to cover two and three dimensional design in its entirety, I’m trying to pick out a few critical principles – both of how design works and how to create a good design. (Here I’m talking [...]

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How to think about design rules

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 24, 2012

While working on the book this morning, I was struck by the number of admonitions about “rules” in craft work – either laying down a list of things to do and not-do, or urging you to break all the rules and “just do it”. I think both approaches are wrong. There definitely are design rules, [...]

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Adapting existing designs

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 23, 2012

I’m now about two weeks ahead on the book blog, and have come to the section on generating new designs from existing ones. It’s really forced me to think about how an existing design can be adapted. I started with SCAMPER, which is a tool used by designers to create new designs from old.  It’s [...]

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The phoenixes are multiplying

By Tien Chiu | Published: October 17, 2012

I was making mind maps for Phoenix Rising this morning, mostly to serve as examples for my book blog entry on mind maps (which will be published in a week or two). I did a series of three, focusing on a different aspect each time, and hit a “Eureka!” moment with the third one: (If [...]

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