The Design Process
📋 What it is
Makers follow a design process: understand the problem, brainstorm, build a prototype, test it, and improve — then repeat.
🗣️ Coach says
Making isn’t about getting it perfect first try — it’s a loop. Understand the problem, imagine solutions, build a rough version, test it, learn, improve. Round and round. The loop is how every invention gets better.
🧠 Memory hook
Understand → imagine → build → test → improve → repeat. It’s a loop.
😂 Giggle
Why did the 3D printer go to therapy?
It had too many layers of issues!
😲 Whoa!
Even famous inventors “failed” hundreds of times — each test taught them what to change next.
✅ Quick check: Why do makers test a rough prototype and then improve it, instead of trying to build it perfectly the first time?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Because testing reveals what works and what doesn’t; improving from real feedback (the design loop) gets to a good solution faster than guessing.
The iterate-and-improve loop is the heart of making and engineering.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Think of something you’d improve and name one quick “rough version” you could test.