A Fun Design Brief

Before all the hungry participants could hurry off to lunch, Mr. Andrew had a design brief that involved the design process that everyone had learned earlier in the day. The four problems in the brief were:

“Your pet is sad, what do you do?”
“What would you need on Mars?”

“Your grandmother/grandfather cannot keep up with modern technology, what do you do?”

“What do you do if your school equipment is too heavy?”

Although, I bet that though a few people were unhappy to get homework, these ideas would help many learn how to apply the design process to real life situations.  Also, these ideas were total hard-core fun!  Imagine designing your pet a deluxe apartment!  Making yourself a mansion on Mars!  A computer chip which would enable your grandparents to know about every gadget and gizmo before its even released!  Or even a hover craft that you could fly from home to school, with your books and you in it! 

This brief doesn’t seem to be just another assignment!  Go on, (quoting Willy Wonka) feed your imagination!