Creativity and Design preocess

What is creativity?

Creativity is a very well respected talent.However, there are different types of creativity which is not always fully understood or easy to follow. Creativity often gets confused with originality, but they an be very different. Originality is something that has never been done or made before. But, creativity is a collection of existing ideas formed in a new way or with a different concept. The best creators are usually very experimental and need to be able to solve problems that come up. Creators become better by making mistakes and learning from them and adapting their work.

Design Process

The design process is like the guidelines to creating a new design or creation. First you must plan what what you are creating and investigate it. Then you evaluate your plan add on to it if nececary and then create the final product. Most pieces of great design follow this process to avoid errors and faults. This process makes it easy to spot if you are missing something or need to add something in. It could also nspire you to better your creation. The design process is a very useful tool to use while creating designs.

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A Comparison of Scientific Research method and Design Process models

	Research method	Design process
Preparation for research	Literature review	Study historic and contemporary examples, media
Information gathering. Goal: to limit variables and identify problem	Collection of preliminary field data	Experimentation with materials and visual ideas
Identification of problem and hypothesis	Information correlated; problem defined; educated guesses made; hypotheses stated; research design prepared	Design problem identified through visual analysis and recognition
Exposition of facts and interpretation	Research plan is carried out; results are analyzed, plan is modified as necessary based on results; experiments are replicated	Work is created in a series, with each work suggesting problems to explore in subsequent work
Presentation of results and findings	Publication of findings	Exhibition of work or production of design