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| Brainstorming | A spontaneous group discussion to produce ideas. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| Creativity | The ability to make or bring a new concept or idea into existence; marked by the ability or power to create. |
| Prototype | A full-scale working model used to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments. |
| Center Line | A line which defines the center of arcs, circles or symmetrical parts. |
| Depth | The measurement associated with an object's front-to-back dimension - Z axis |
| Height | The measurement associated with an object's top to bottom dimension - Y axis |
| Width | The measurement associated with an object's right-to-left dimension - X axis |
| Orthographic Projection | a way of representing a three-dimensional object in two dimensions. |
| Views included in Orthographic Projection | Top view, front view, right side view and isometric view |
| Sketch | A rough representation of the main features of an object or scene |
| Dimension | A measurable extent such as the three principal dimensions of an object is width, height, and depth |
