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| Assessment | An evaluation technique for technology that requires analyzing benefits and risks, understanding the trade-offs, and then determining the best action to take in order to ensure that the desired positive outcomes outweigh the negative consequences. |
| Brainstorming | A spontaneous group discussion to produce ideas. |
| Client | A person using the services of a professional person or organization. |
| Constraint | 1. A limit to a design process. Constraints may be such things as appearance, funding, space, materials, and human capabilities. 2. A limitation or restriction. |
| Design | 1. An iterative decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are converted into products or systems that meet human needs and wants or solve problems. 2. A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of something before it is built or made. 3. A decorative pattern. |
| Design Brief | A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints. The design brief is used to encourage thinking of all aspects of a problem before attempting a solution. |
| Design Process | A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem or satisfy human needs and wants and to winnow (narrow) down the possible solutions to one final choice. |
| Designer | A person who designs any of a variety of things. This usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways uses visual cues to organize his or her work. |
| Engineer | A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
| Innovation | An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something. |
| Invention | A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation. |
| Problem Identification | The recognition of an unwelcome or harmful matter needing to be dealt with. |
| Product | A tangible artifact produced by means of either human or mechanical work, or by biological or chemical process. |
| Research | The systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. |
| Assess | To thoroughly and methodically analyze accomplishment against specific goals and criteria. |
| Creativity | The ability to make or bring a new concept or idea into existence; marked by the ability or power to create. |
| Design Statement | A part of a design brief that challenges the designer, describes what a design solution should do without describing how to solve the problem, and identifies the degree to which the solution must be executed. |
| Criteria | A means of judging. A standard, rule, or test by which something can be judged. |
| Piling-on | An idea that produces a similar idea or an enhanced idea. |
| Prototype | A full-scale working model used to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments. |
