What i know already?
Research is essential and continuous part of the design process!. It is something I have used heavily throughout my education to broaden my knowledge, justify decisions and also influence my own work.But! what is Effective research and am i researching effectively?.......
what I think EFFECTIVE research is?
Researching well can ultimately make or break a project. Relying on what you already know without looking into the bigger picture, existing products/designers/artists, materials, mediums, gaps in the market, costings, etc. you can limit yourself considerably and effect the development of a project/product/idea. In a nut shell
BAD RESEARCH = BAD PROJECT
Where am I in terms of effective research and what should i do about it?
Research is essential and continuous part of the design process!. It is something I have used heavily throughout my education to broaden my knowledge, justify decisions and also influence my own work.But! what is Effective research and am i researching effectively?.......
what I think EFFECTIVE research is?
- Primary research (Questionnaires, direct observation & Interviews)
- Secondary research such as Books, Journals, Newspaper articles
- utilising Library, internet, group discussion
- Looking around the subject
- Copy and paste large chunks of text of the internet
- Relying purely on what you know already or making it up
- only looking in one place or one persons opinion
(there's a lot of false information on the internet)
Researching well can ultimately make or break a project. Relying on what you already know without looking into the bigger picture, existing products/designers/artists, materials, mediums, gaps in the market, costings, etc. you can limit yourself considerably and effect the development of a project/product/idea. In a nut shell
BAD RESEARCH = BAD PROJECT
Where am I in terms of effective research and what should i do about it?
- I mainly use the internet for research instead of going to the library! - I need to start utilising other sources of information books/journals/museums/galleries/exhibitions
- I do not use any primary research - I need to do some good primary research such as questionnaires and client research as this will insure i am creating an appropriate product, get idea's i hadn't even considered!
- Good at looking around a subject and bringing in unusual idea's
- In some respects I rely on my existing knowledge - I need to look at more existing work to avoid creating something which already exists but also generate better idea's and improving idea's.