Bonus Post- Is the final product more important than the design and production process?

The design process.

The time during the lifespan of an idea, when...

Passion is sparked and unimaginable dreams become the created.

A time, a chance, an opportunity, permeated with both frustration and realisation.

Scrunched ideas in piles that will never eventuate, and tears stain perfectly white pages.

But yet heartbreak inspires just one more little idea....

Then the perfect design is...and in that moment there is only bliss.

This is the design process.

The production process

Begins the same way,

The excitement, fuels momentum and then....

Something, somewhere has not worked.

The rush to find the culprit is met with increasing frustration and the desire to give up.

But in that moment determination speaks.

The problem is solved and momentum is gained just once more.

The design coming to life raises the anticipation.

Until.... the project has been created.

Feelings of accomplishment and pride follows.

This is the production process.

The product

The product, standing alone, it is created.

Of all the other ideas that could have been, this is the one that made it.

The song, the painting, the dance is nothing without the process it took to get there.

To listen to the song, without understanding the processes is loss.

The worth is in the fight, the struggle, the heartache.

and without that, the brilliance is not fully understood.

The final product is nothing without the process, but is everything with the process.

This is final product.

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The design and production process is just as important and if not more important than the final product itself.

To design as described by Brad Hokanson and Andrew Gibbons in their book, is to “mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive". In today's world, the design and the production process is just as important as the final product. Designing is the process of coming up with the ideas and without it, there would be no final product at all. It is filled with the most growth, it takes perseverance and innovation to come up with the ideas for the product. These are key skills that need to be taught to children. Teaching children how to design gives them other vital skills in life.

Production is defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the action of making or manufacturing". The production process is the most direct process that gets to work with the materials to create the final product. It is the time in the process that one might get the most challenges and but also the most fulfillment.

Without these processes the final product just becomes a 'thing' to be consumed and the true value of these steps in making the final product is lost. In terms of modern technology often we look at a game but do not really think about how much work was put into the producing of that game. The sounds or the graphics made by the producer, or the thought process behind the functionality. This is what makes the final product good... no what makes it great. Therefore, without these processes one can only see the final product as something to be consumed without fully appreciated it.

Therefore the design and production process is just as important as the final product itself.

References:

Hokanson, Brad ; Gibbons, Andrew. (2014). Design in Educational Technology (Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Production. (2018). Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved from: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/production

Wix [Comuter program]. (2018). Retrieved from wix.com

All photos are from the Wix website,

Wix, 2018