How many different combinations can you make with three blocks? How about four or five or even six? These sketches that I show are some of the many combinations of blocks. Sketching the multiple possible ways of combining the blocks makes it easier to build and create inventions to be used.
Conclusion Q&A
1. Why is it so important for a designer to think of multiple solutions to a design problem? So that just in case one solution does not work, there will be many more solutions to try and one of the solutions may work. If there was only one solution and that solution did not work, then the design cannot function and the designer would either have to redo the whole thing or look for another solution.
2. What steps did you take to determine the exact number of possible combinations for each set of the cubes? I started with all the blocks on top of each other and then gradually had one come up front or had on above the other blocks. Soon, I just randomly thought of new ways to put the blocks together without having two of the same ones from rotation.
It is important to sketch my ideas and the sign and date the document so there is proof that the ideas are yours. If you didn't sign them, then anyone can take those ideas for themselves. If you did not write the date, then there is a possibility that no one will believe you as the sketch could have been made by copying another designer.
1. Why is it so important for a designer to think of multiple solutions to a design problem? So that just in case one solution does not work, there will be many more solutions to try and one of the solutions may work. If there was only one solution and that solution did not work, then the design cannot function and the designer would either have to redo the whole thing or look for another solution.
2. What steps did you take to determine the exact number of possible combinations for each set of the cubes? I started with all the blocks on top of each other and then gradually had one come up front or had on above the other blocks. Soon, I just randomly thought of new ways to put the blocks together without having two of the same ones from rotation.
It is important to sketch my ideas and the sign and date the document so there is proof that the ideas are yours. If you didn't sign them, then anyone can take those ideas for themselves. If you did not write the date, then there is a possibility that no one will believe you as the sketch could have been made by copying another designer.