1. Designing for People

2. Designing a good building
may not start with drawing.
It starts with
an understanding
of people.

3. Why?
All people have needs and when they commission a designer to do something the better the designer satisfies those needs the happier the client/users will be.
So the more you know
about them the more you
will be able to understand
them and the better you
will be able to
design for them.

4. In this project you are designing your own building so you need to think hard – about yourself!
Typical things you need know:
What things do you like as a client?
How do you intend to use your design?
How will you interact with it?
How does the design reflect your values?
How does the design reflect your interests?

5. The search for and value of simplicity in design
Simple not Simplistic
The search for and value of simplicity in design
This rendering of the Vitruvian Man, completed in 1490, is fundamentally different than others in two ways: The circle and square image overlaid on top of each other to form one image. A key adjustment was made that others had not done and thus were forced to make disproportionate appendages:
“Leonardo’s famous drawings of the Vitruvian proportions of a man’s body first standing inscribed in a square and then with feet and arms outspread inscribed in a circle provides an excellent early example of the way in which his studies of proportion fuse artistic and scientific objectives. It is Leonardo, not Vitruvius, who points out that ‘If you open the legs so as to reduce the stature by one-fourteenth and open and raise your arms so that your middle fingers touch the line through the top of the head, know that the centre of the extremities of the outspread limbs will be the umbilicus, and the space between the legs will make and equilateral triangle’ (Accademia, Venice).

6. Ockham’s Razor
Given a choice between functionally equivalent designs the simplest design should be selected.
William of Ockham (or Occam) was a 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar who's name is given to the principle that when trying to choose between multiple competing theories the simplest theory is probably the best. This principle is known as Ockham's razor.

7. Other Internet search services added advertising and extra functions
to their web sites. Google kept its design simple and efficient.
The result is the best performing, easiest to use and most popular search
service on the web.

8. The Yamaha Compact Silent Electric Cello.
This minimalist design has only structural elements and
the portions touched by the player.
The Taburet M Stacking Stool
Is strong, comfortable, and
Stackable. It is constructed
From how many components?

9. “Entities should not be multiplied without necessity” – William of Ockham.
“Nature operates in the shortest way possible” – Aristotle.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” – Albert Einstein.