Lead Designer's Handbook

CHAPTER 1 DESIGN AND THE LEAD DESIGNER

Introduction

Everything around us needs to be designed and every industry has its own unique way of designing. Some designs can be carried out by an individual or a small team, while others need a large design team with diverse skills ranging from those required to develop the look and feel of a design through to specialised and complex engineering contributions. The diversity of tasks for many designs requires a design process that steers the design from its initial creative spark through to the information required to make it. In a world increasingly driven by project management processes, this chapter starts with a brief overview of design, designers, the design team and the need for a design process, ...