Design

Design Methods

• What does the scale of permanence look like in your situation?
• What elements are already designed? 
• What is the furthest up the scale that you are able to effectively intervene?
• How many different design methods have you used? 
• When might it not be appropriate to use a specific method of design?
• Are there any methods of design that are missing from the list?
• Try an input/output analysis with a problem that you are trying to solve. What insights can it give?
• Find different maps of your location. How accurate are they? What information does the different perspective give? What information does it hide?
• Try SADIMET/OBREDIMET. How are they useful to you? In what ways might they not be helpful or not?
• How can we increase the effectiveness of the hourglass? Are we giving all the steps their proper time?
• How can we use an iterative process to design our systems? How can this process be more or less effective?
• Does the cycle of learning appear in your life? Can you test its effectiveness?
• How do these methods encourage zeroing in on specific details, how do they encourage a view of whole patterns? 
• What is your balance between patterns and details?