October 08, 2009 by
Lately I've been thinking a lot about the importance of reflecting back on the design process. We spend so much time on research, testing materials/styles and building ideas but much of which is unseen. As hard as we try, great ideas and successes in the design process early on are hidden in the end result due to the fact that as designers we are constantly evolving our work, even up until the last hour.
Personally, I want to change this. Whether it was a violently frustrating process that took 30x longer than expected to finish the design or it was a fluke accident that lead to the most creative solution, I'm searching for a way to document everything I do throughout the course of design projects.
I'm not going to mention all of how I've started it just yet, but instead pose this question. How do you or would you document the design process? What way does justice to the work that you put in?
Is it a documentation of the music listened to while working or the scanning of 100 pages of sketches and notes? I know that for me personally, the music I'm listening to can completely change the way I feel about a project. During frustration I simply turn on Empire of the Sun to calm down and during boredom I'll listen to a Boys Noize remix to fire me up.
Either way, let me know what you think! I'll do another post soon enough with a bit of the process work I'm currently putting together.
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