Includes the consideration of products and services working in concert and planned from the outset for a better solution

Self-motivated, individual work at all stages of development

Considers the customer and her needs and wants as the primary design criteria

The design goal as an elegant, well-thought out and refined solution

These are the key participants in the project whose opinions are important for the solution

Design criteria based on the wants and needs of the project stakeholders

Design research focused on a detailed look at the lifestyle, wants and needs of prototypical customers

Design with a consideration for the environmental impacts at all stages of a product or services lifecycle

Considers and questions the design brief from a larger perspective and challenges assumptions

Group techniques for generating innovative solutions to opportunities in the design brief

Collaboration within and between multidisciplinary teams or team members for fresh perspectives

A process for examining the stages of a product's lifecycle to determine and reduce environmental impacts

First stage of my design process that involves digging into details about the brief, the stakeholder's value criteria, the technology and the marketplace

Collaborative process of reducing number of solutions to three or so and improving each based on the project's value criteria and solution criteria

Individual and group process of generating solutions based on research and stakeholder feedback

Reporting progress, research and solution alternatives to the relevant stakeholders for feedback to use in the next round of design

Making virtual and physical versions of components of the solution for visualization, testing and feedback

Method for ensuring that the solutions balance the marketplace demands, customer wants/needs and technological limits

GradID model for evaluating the value of a given solution

GradID stakeholders include the Customer (buying and using the product or service), the Company (making and selling the product or service) and the World (environment, workplace standards, product lifecycle, etc.)