Creating Design Plans

The more time and effort you put into the design plan, the more likely the communication is to go smoothly.

I think the best part of Anne’s experience with design plans was actually the graphic on page 54 that actually showed us what her finished design plan looked like. It gave me an idea of what I should attempt to create when I am making my design plan.

I think the most important thing we can learn from Anne's experience is that we need to actually know our audience before we can relate to them. By putting herself in the shoes of people involved with the program we can see that Anne 'understands' these members and can do a good job relating with them.

I think the most important part of Anne’s experience was her willingness to research her subjects. In creating a design plan, and specific goal must be decided upon before production to the design can be made. Once her goal and audience were made clear, the design could shape off of those ideas easily.

The design plan accounts for the “research” you may perform, like in Anne’s case when she visited the NCCC campuses and gained a greater understanding of what she was designing. Hence, quite a bit of the grunt work should become during this point in the process. This is the time where everything is collected and then processed and either used or eliminated.

Preparation. If you organize and thoughtfully construct a good design plan, you will have an easier time working on the final product. More effort in planning and preparation = less time in execution.

-Adam

I think that the most important thing to take from Anne's experience is that you need to think on the fly. Even though her superiors had a different idea of what needed to be done to effectively do her job, she realized the need to tweak the plans a little bit. The detail in her plan was fantastic and I am sure that it helped her see where she needed to make little adjustments in order to more effectively accomplish her purpose.

It's important to realize that the means that others have in mind to complete a goal are not always the most efficient or effective. You need to consider all of the components (audience, context, purpose, etc.) rather than only the information inside. Anne researched a lot before making her own conclusions on how to communicate to the team leaders.

The most important thing to take from Anne’s experience with design plans was how she built her plan from the ground up. Anne began by assuming nothing and researching the topic. She traveled to NCCC campuses and interviewed people involved in the program. In essence she began by researching the topic to have a more complete and broad understanding of her information. Then she systematically recorded information such as who her audience would be and described the context and purpose of the presentation. The bottom line is, Anne did the ground work for creating a great presentation. She built her plan from scratch, and the end result was outstanding.

The need to articulate your design plan as thoroughly as you can is important, because it helps you understand the material you're covering more effectively. Also things can change as you proceed further into your design, so the need to be flexible is prevalent.

i would say the most important thing about anne's experience with deisgn plans would be the way it shows how she identified the audience, context and purpose. Then when she went to develope her design plan she used that information to help her figure out what would be useful for this project and how to apply it for the rest of the porject.

The most important aspect of Anne's experience was her visiting the NCCC camps. Without doing this, it would have been almost impossible for her to create a design plan because she would have not know the correct audience and context of where her materials would be used.

That properly laying out your design plan in advance will streamline your process and help you stay focused on the purpose of what you are designing and who you are designing for. It's easy to go back and modify your design plan if your purpose or audience or whatever changes a little bit, so you don't have to be locked into a particular design from the get go. You can develop and add to it as you go along.

That since your audience doesn't see your design plan, you have to be able to read and work with it. So basically you have to be able to work and make something out of what you have. And the better you are prepared the more smoothly you will be able to make a piece of communication with your plans. Also every design plan must have a purpose, strategy, medium, arrangement, communication and testing.

I would say the most important thing in her experience was the time she put into getting to know her audience. She talked to and interviewed the people from her target audience, and it definitely paid off. If she had not done this, her guide may have been a bulky manual that nobody would carry with them. But since she did her homework and knew what would be easiest to carry with them, she determined small pocket-sized booklets would be ideal. Not to mention the content even.

Anne first did a great deal of research on the audience, context, and purpose of the program. Her attention to these details allowed her not only to create an informed statement of purpose, but recognize all of the potential barriers presented by traditional methods of presenting materials to her audience. Had she not realized this and acted accordingly, the materials she created would have gone unused and her efforts would have been in vain.

The main thing I learned from Anne's experience is how essential a design plan is to the creative process. Without the help of a desing plan, Anne would not have (or at the very least had a harder time) designing a curriculum catered to these individuals in NCCC. By going over the design plan before making any concrete decisions, she realized that she had to be fairly flexible in her curriculum design, thereby making it easier for the people in this course to learn the materials on there own time instead of having to fit the material into their already hectic schedules.

I think the most important part of Anne's experience is about the arrangement and medium of the design. It shows that through these two concepts, you can change the overall feeling and thought process associated with the design.