Design+as+a+collaborative+process


 * Design as a collaborative process**


 * Bill Moggridge believes in the concept of togetherness. He states that when designers are faced with problems in a complex designing process than they can not tackle it by them selves. They need to collaborate and work in teams, teams of different backgrounds, engineering fields, marketers, etc. It is important also that this collaboration needs to be intimate by putting their minds together to get the design going. Important also is to involve the people the design is for. This is participatory design where the designers and users work together to improve the final product. **
 * One of the examples of participatory design is involving surgeons when designing surgery gears. It is the surgeons that give ideas of how they would prefer the instruments be like through hands-on approaches. Another idea is that involved participation was the ** blood drive for the American Red Cross Donor Program. The donors would have a chance to have their picture put up with an explanation of why they donated. This would drive more donations and humanize the donatio process.
 * //Find an online example of a product which utilizes his principles of collaborative design, add its URL, and describe its design in three sentences.//**

Eclipse Aviation asked IDEO to design a cockpit and cabin configuration for the Eclipse 500 jet. IDEO gathered a multidisciplinary team, along with pilots, aircraft owners, and potential Eclipse 500 buyers, to better understand the spatial restrictions and interaction needs of pilots and passengers. The resulting design eliminated visual clutter in an elegant and user-friendly interior, and employed technologies such as a military-style side stick control and harmonized instrument panel.

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