Reading Reflections:
1:
Design is a new skill that takes so much effort. Everyone designs something. Good designers seem to feel that the stuff they make just happens, they don't actually do anything “good” to make things.
Design is not making exactly what you need, it is making something better.
Many say that it comes naturally to them. Designing is intuitive.
Some design sects may say that you have to have rationale and understanding to design anything, to some, that is the key point. Sometimes this intuition is learned or something they just possess.
This intuition is actually a combination of many small educational moments contributing to an understanding that is formed before the designer consciously decides on anything.
Sometimes unhelpful things put together can overlap and outline a helpful thing.
This thinking process outlines that sometimes designers only really get to a result near the end of the creation process
2:
Thinking Hats basic premise being that one can use different perspectives to approach a problem and use the benefits of these perspectives to analyze it.
The hats are as follows
Blue Hat: Process, the hat that plans and organizes things.
White Hat: Neutral hat that looks objectively and uses data driven thinking.
Red Hat: Uses intuition and feelings to drive thinking.
Green Hat: Creative thinking with grand ideas and solutions to the problems of the black hat.
Yellow Hat: all of the positives and plus points. Why things are good. Uses logic.
Black Hat: all of the logical issues and weaknesses, as well as spotting the risks.
3:
It is key for designers to consider the way that the things they design will be used. A small percentage of people using these things will have the ideal physical functions to use them. A lot of what is designed is completely restricted to able bodied healthy humans.
This reading outlines the important of empathy
