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"Every facet of the design process has to maintain a relationship with the senses. When you confront an object, you've got to touch it, smell it, listen to it... "
Bruno Munari
Please consider the above with reference design process/es. Write 250 words with images and links. Use case studies to explain. Due 24/11/08.

Govinda - The Six Thinking Hats

The six thinking hats is a system created by Edward de Bono as a means to assist the thinking process and encourage people to look at situations differently. Applying this technique to the design process can help a person look outside the square, behind, underneath and inside while allowing positive and negative thinking. The six hats are as follows: white, red, black, yellow, green and blue. They each represent different thinking styles, such as emotive and reflective.

When I receive a new design brief, I usually first don the white hat. This enables me to look at the data available, assess what’s missing and analyse the information gathered. I then may change into either a green or red hat, using creativity or intuition and emotion. The black hat is then needed to look at the bad points of the designs and eliminate weak ideas. From there I can jump around wearing many different hats at different moments until the design is complete.

If stuck for ideas when designing, looking at the problem with the various hats is a good way to step outside the square and see the situation differently. This can really help to get ideas going.

Different hats work for different people. Have fun with the colours.

ALEC - the six hat dance

Six hat thinking is a decision making technique developed by Edward De Bono. It forces us to change our habitual ways of thinking – to think outside the square! By donning the six hats it gives more scope to our thoughts in a structured and cohesive manner. When all six hats have been on your head you can safely say all options have been exhausted and your conclusion will be rock solid.

Yesterday I was given the task of putting together a folio of my work in Craig’s class. At first I thought, ‘Oh no, this is going to be huge!’

But it soon dawned on me that if I utilise the six hats my chances of success will surely improve.

White hat – I looked through all my previous work as well as magazines and catalogues to select what I liked and disliked. The information/data has been gathered.

Green hat – Wild ideas of wacky layouts, slightly legible fonts and vast expanses of negative space ran through my mind but to choose any I would have to welcome the next hat.

Red hat – Intuition takes over and I settle on 3 different over all ‘themes’ for my folio that I think people would like and meet some sort of industry standard.

Black hat – Now it is time to sift through my work and 3 themes with a fine tooth comb and eliminate anything and everything that I don’t like or wouldn’t sit well in a magazine. Once this is out of the way it is time for…

Yellow hat – Now that the elimination stage is over I can look at all the positives of my work and start to build a rock solid portfolio.

Blue hat – As I work on my folio I realise some hats need to be revisited and it is with this blue hat on in which I make these choices.http://designprocesses.blogspot.com/

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bono_Hats

---------->ROGAN : 6 THINKING HATS

The six thinking hats theory is a technique designed by Edward de Bono to help people to strategically think.  Each of the different colored hats is a different way or different perspective of looking at a project or problem, to assist in planning a solution or outcome. 

 Lets say I am given a project to design artwork for a bands album cover.  Using the six hats theory I would start by breaking it down as follows to allow me to produce a well-rounded and well-executed outcome.

 Firstly I would don the ‘white hat’ and assess the style of music, bands logo (if they have one), the name of the album and other bands artwork in the genre etc…

 Secondly I would slap on the ‘red hat’ and gauge how I react to the band and what sort of imagery I believe would suite the band, and think how other people might react to it.

 Thirdly I would toss the ‘black hat’ in the air and land it perfectly on my head and critically evaluate my ideas and look at the bad points and try to find ways to eliminate the floors from my design.

 Forthly I would slip on the ‘yellow’ hat and look at the goods points in the design and run with them.

 Fithly throwing on the ‘green hat’ I get creative and develop my ideas freely.

 Sixthly putting on the ‘blue hat’ I re-evaluate and refine my ideas.

 Using these six colourful hats my album artwork would surely be the stuff of ledgends.

Brief- Design a company Logo for Kurt and Paulo using the Six Thinking Hats Technique.

The Design Process: Jamie

The design process has no real strict way of method. For example a math equation has a right and a wrong answer while an essay can follow a number of answers. With the design process, sure there are guides to follow to complete a project but it really comes down to the designer’s preference to attack. Some designers may feel that the first idea that comes into their head is the manor of method, while others will brainstorm, refine, redesign to feel that will give them the best outcome. With everything there is positives and negatives. In this case the designer who just does the one offs may find that the lack of research can restrict the design and therefore the final outcome, while on the other through perusing the idea straight away, he has more working time to create the final product. With the designer who uses research to come up with the design, he might over think the design and get too caught up in trying to think of the design he would like to follow, while the research opens a lot more possibilities and ideas to pursue.

The quote given looks at everyone’s thoughts on method.

‘Noble to have a method’
That you have a solid way to come through with the final design, putting a lot of work.
‘Noble not to have a method’
That your considered excellent as you are able to come up with a design without much thought, almost second nature.
‘Not to have a method is bad; to stop entirely at method is worse’
Looks at not having a game plan can be dangerous to a designer. Getting stuck on the method is worse as you get too caught up in it and not looking at the end product, just the crap in between.
‘Observe the rules first severely, then change them in an intelligent way’
Look at the options given and then make changes to get a better product.
‘The aim of possessing method is to seem finally as if one had no method’
Is quite ironic as you try to end up with the end product, you got their with a method, though you don’t want any one to and no one ever will see the method.

LEE: SIX sHAT THINKING

Six hat thinking is a method of thinking devised by Edward De Bono.

This method of thinking involves the use of 6 fictional hats.

The red hat, white hat, blue hat, black hat, yellow hat and green hat.

Each of these hats represents a different way of thinking.

-The white hat is the hat one wears to focus on all the available data and make informed decisions based on what you learn from this.

-The red hat is the hat that is worn when one looks at the project or situation from an entirely emotional viewpoint. Sort of like a hat that forces you to look upon the situation as if it is your first time, and form opinions based on emotions and gut reaction.

-The black hat is the hat that is often used by pessimists and the critics among us. The black hat allows us to look at the project in a way that focuses entirely on the negative aspects of it. and can then be used to help improve it.

-The yellow hat is the opposite of the black hat. It focuses on looking at the positive side and helps you push forward when things look bad for the situation.

-The green hat is the hat worn by people who don't think and just do. the green had stands for creativity and freedom. If you are over analyzing something, put on the green hat and do what you like. It may yield unexpected results.

-The blue hat is the hat that governs other hats. sort of the president of the united hats. If you do not know what hat to wear. the blue hat helps you make that decision.

For example. This last weekend, I attempted to knuckle down and do much assignment work. This often results in me donning the black hat and thinking everything i do is not of high enough caliber or something is wrong etc. etc. such as when i would make progress with one assignment i would freak out because another assignment is not as developed as another, nor was it any good.

This kind of thinking is bad for my health so I put on the blue hat and thought it over.

the end result was me putting on the green hat where I then proceed to do whatever i want without worrying about the implications of it going bad etc. and started making some real progress.

-Lee