How to Use Your Design Folder

As you progress through the different stages of the design cycle, you will be trying out new ideas, researching topics, finding information, sketching possible solutions, making changes, making decisions and evaluating your work. 

The design folder is a collection of all the work that went into creating your product.  Everything (yes, EVERYTHING) you do in IDT should be recorded, and dated, then put in the design folder.

Your design folder will contain:

• A record of your research.  E.g. Printouts of websites you have looked at or used.  A list of the URL’s from any websites you visited that you thought was useful
• All the plans and designs that you draw.
• Photographs and/or screen shots of your product being developed that show it progressing from the beginning to the end.
• Your evaluation of the final product

Your design folder must be clearly divided into the main sections of the design cycle: investigate, design, plan, create, evaluate. 

Your design folder will begin with your first investigation and end with your evaluation.