Design workflow / From Novice to Expert

Design workflow focuses on the design process and improving your work/designs throughout a project to help improve productivity which is essential for any business. Workflow is a good source to identify how well a design is coming together, or if any changes need to be made. Being able to assess work in progress and in stages can eliminate expensive mistakes and optimise time effectively. As an example, I would utilise this process for my L4 visual communications work, based on my RVJ. In my project I would record in stages, commencing with the key principles, research, influence, thumbnails, experiments and then the final piece.  This process would allow me to work through a sequence of stages to ensure I work logically and efficiently to produce a cost effective manageable design.

This is an example of a workflow I created,                                     
breaking down the various stages of the work before
arriving at my final design.
Producing a workflow demonstrates how you can
move through various stages of design effectively
with logic in order to gain the desired finish. With a workflow, you can reuse your personal system that you feel comfortable with, in all projects you are given in order to achieve the design in the right manner. With this same principle to producing a design, you can look through what stages need to be done, for example research, you can then pin point what research is required in the project.
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workflow diagram

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This design workflow professionally demonstrates how a well thought out plan can competently follow through and maximise time. The workflow commences with quotes, proposals and estimates. The chart proceeds to illustrate how the design is processed and various stages the design goes though before completing the design brief the customer requires. A variety of individual boxes have been created to allow the designer to assign various stages appropriately, thus making the work more manageable Having everything in order makes life easier for the designer.  This process can be applied to all design projects to produce a competitive, manageable design.




From Novice to expert is a terminology reflecting a person who knows very little 'novice', and learns things from a source, book, internet, learning very limited resources. Where the 'expert' is fully knowledgeable, having gained tremendous  experience through a length of time. Information found in books is where an expert has already investigated and actually experienced the situations. However the novice just learns the basics. The expert needs to have a real good understanding whether it means going to a specific location, seeing that object in the flesh, feeling, experiencing that moment which you read about in books. Hands on knowledge is the only way to genuinely achieve the research you are looking for, and achieve the required results. Exploring gives you a better understanding than just researching through books, like a novice. Were the expert is getting involved with that experience.
                                                                  

Frontispiece of the earliest dated

printed book, the Diamond Sutra, ...

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The Diamond of Sutra was printed in 868 AD which is one of the oldest books ever discovered, being printed by using wooden blocks and silk screens and being one of the earliest ever woodblock fragments. It has taken many years to master screen printing, from the beginning of the first Bible, Quran, etc. This technique spread all over the world and is now possible to be able to print on electric printers. This experience of investigating the earliest stages of where the information began  adapting to books, internet etc. This relates to the difference from novice to expert. However this novice experience illustrates how it was done with hard work, determination and extreme detail. Its amazing how printing started thousands of years ago to the first ink jet printing only being created in the past 30 years. This technology has been been advanced tremendously from the traditional printings to more advanced printing. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html