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Linear Design Model
The linear model tells the story of designing in the simplest terms: each strategy is done once and always
in the same order. It neglects that design often goes in repeating cycles or iterations.
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The simplest design model describes designing as a
movement among three activities: analysis-synthesis-evaluation.
In the context of design, Lawson
(1990) says that "analysis is the
ordering and structuring of the problem … synthesis
is the generating of solutions" and evaluation
is the "appraisal … of suggested solutions against
the objectives identified in the analysis phase."
Notice that these strategies appear as the three highest-order
educational objectives in Bloom's
well-known taxonomy (1950).
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