The design process can be defined in many different ways consisting of innumerable steps depending on what you constitute as "step-worthy". I think you could explain the phone call process in either 2 steps: 1) Dial number 2) press send or 10 steps: 1) pick up phone 2) dial first digit in telephone number 3) dial second digit in telephone number etc. etc. etc. The latter while easier to fallow with perhaps fewer opportunities for foul ups is lengthy and wordy and well, boring. The design process should be streamlined so as to give the designer guidelines as to how to get their creative juices flowing while allowing plenty of room for them to explore different possible avenues and yes, make some mistakes along the way.
Mistakes after all can lead to better engineering and durability. For example while working on a prototype say you accidentally break a piece and you notice that that particular are absorbs more tension than the others. You can then go back and find a material that is flexible so that that particular piece can move under tension giving the whole design more integrity. What seemed like an "Oh S#!%" moment can actually save you from having to deal with this problem in the post production stage of the design. So if we keep our design process to Think, Look, Do , repeat. We can encompass all the other useful steps that go into design. As long as we never give up on thinking, looking, or doing and we are not afraid to make mistakes we can conquer all the obstacles that come between us and our objective. Who knows, we might stumble upon something even bigger than we ever dreamed of. Alexander Fleming did when he accidentally invented penicillin in 1928.
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