Saturday, August 30, 2008

Industrial Designers' Bad Habits

In the recent past I've been to few interesting blogs on design, I found one of them citing about bad habits much emphazised, I would say not all can be called bad. However, there are few appropriate habits we industrial designers should avoid in our profession. And few of them I have listed below are a must, so that you can improve to be a better designer than others.

1. Not understanding the design brief or composing it.


2. Fail to check the concepts meet the requirements of the given brief.

3. Not paying attention to improve sketching and communication skills.

4. Fail to understand Industrial design is multi facet, multi disciplinary field.

5. No plan to a 3D construction process before doing 3D modelling.

6. Avoiding to document the work properly.

7. Obsessed with first design or intial sketches.

8. Not understanding the form- styling clues or inspirations incubated in the design are appropriate.

9. Failing to understand the brand philosophy of the company, which is not cited in the product.

10. Not sharing the knowledge and work with fellow designers, which fails to build a good relationship between them.

11. Avoiding critics, which are important to understand and improve the current design and other product features.


Its very important to avoid these, and mostly to be a Design Star.

3 comments:

preri said...

hmm...I cant comment because I come under some of the clauses so "no comments please"

Raghuraj Ananthoj said...

what are the clauses you're talking here...

preri said...

Not understanding the design brief or composing it...he he similarly many more!!My subject knowledge is very low n designing is out of question!!4years of electronic engg didn't implant much of practicality!!