Arnaud Charpentier
Educational games designer
New Tab. Les applications et avantages de la gamification. 10 | March | 2012 | phillipshakesbymasters. I have reached an exciting stage of my application, I have conducted a large amount of research into the application content, target audience, comparative applications and the technical knowledge required to create the application. I will continue to look for new options and possibilities as I go along but I feel I am now in a good position to move forward into the advanced planning stages before I start development. As a designer I try to follow a design process, the design process that I am using can be seen below: Designers use design processes in their work but designers often tailor the process to suit them; The Design Council says “Different designers manage the process of design in different ways.”
During research in 2005 The Design Council found similarities in the approaches of designers within eleven different prominent design companies and from this research they produced a graphical representation of the design process, see below: Discover Define Develop Deliver.
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