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1. The Design Cycle
By Kobi Go

2. The Design Cycle
• The Design Cycle consists of the following
steps:
1. Investigate
2. Design
3. Plan
4. Create
5. Evaluate

3. Investigate
• Identify the problem which needs to be
solved.
• Research on the problem and ways to solve it
• Do not limit yourselves to ideas which already
have been tested.

4. Design
• List down as many ideas as you can while you
brainstorm.
• Do not be afraid of making mistakes,. It may
start to limit your ideas.
• Choose the best idea among the rest and
justify your decision.
• Always think outside the box, don’t settle for
the typical.

5. Plan
• After choosing the best idea, make a plan for
the product/solution by organizing the steps.
• Estimate the amount of time taken and list
down the materials needed.

6. Create
• This is the part where you follow the plan. You
may change it as you go when necessary.
• Use appropriate techniques and/or equipment
to create the product/solution.
• Just create the product/solution in the best
way possible.

7. Evaluate
• Ask yourself questions about your products.
Some include:
– What could I have changed to make it better?
– What were some of the flaws of the product?
– What were the good points of the product?
• Evaluate your product honestly and
objectively.
• You may seek the evaluation of others.

8. Sample Situation
• One sample situation for using this design
cycle was when our Science group made a
Mythbusters video.
• This was a project that was a requirement for
both the Science and Computer Subjects.

9. Investigation
• Our group researched on the videos of the
Mythbusters.
• We also researched on possible experiments
to do for the video.
• We thought of experiments and we checked if
they were done already.

10. Design
• We listed down the possible ideas for the
video, with one of the experiments being
about the Colgate and clams.
• We decided on this because we did not find
any significant finding about it.
• Compared to the other ideas, we decided that
the experiment would be the best.

11. Plan
• Next we planned on how to do the video.
• We looked at the style of the Mythbusters
videos at we changed a lot to make it better.
• We thought about how long it might take to
finish everything and the materials we would
use.

12. Create
• We followed the plan we made while doing
the experiment and filming the video.
• We changed a few things in the plan as we
were doing the video such as how we would
do the scenes and how it will end up looking
like.

13. Evaluation
• We watched the video over and over to look
for even small flaws in the video.
• We got some of the opinions of others when
they saw our video.
• We edited the parts that had flaws to make
the video look smoother. We also looked into
the comments of others and we changed
some according to it.

14. Final Product
Watch the video in the link below:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k3K
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15. Sources:
• http://www.co-
bw.com/DMS_the_design_cycle.htm
• http://joinerd.wikispaces.com/The+Design+Cy
cle
• www.engr.ucr.edu/mesa/advisors/Design_Cycl
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