Design It!

Chapter 15Activities to Explore Potential Solutions

In the explore mindset, we work to discovery multiple design concepts and engineering approaches we think will solve specific problems. Architecture exploration focuses on the part of the world architects control—the software. We don’t always get to choose the problem, but solutions are bound only by our knowledge, creativity, and skills.

Exploration may seem without bounds, but according to the redesign rule, introduced in ​The Four Principles of Design Thinking​, we rarely create new architectures completely from scratch. Since all design is redesign, exploration starts by considering solutions ...