Measure, Assess and Improve

Designs never stay still, they are always being improved upon. Just image the mobile phone if designers stopped improving it 10 years ago!

Measuring Your Design Solution is about thinking how it can be improved in the future (or now if you like).

Read through the two points below and make some notes to enter in the next step.

Context of your Challenge: review your Context from the Define Phase. Is your Design Solution responding to all of the needs you identified?

Nature’s Unifying Patterns: Is your design ‘good’ biomimicry? Nature’s Unifying Patterns are essential lessons from nature. They are the underlying principles which result in nature as a sustainable system. Which of Nature’s Unifying Patterns are present in your Design Solution? Can you include more? Can you improve on the one’s you have included?

Use the Nature’s Unifying Patterns worksheet to help you.