Prompt

Designers represent their ideas through many different means: drawings, photographs, renderings, scale models, prototypes, and more. Diagrams are just another means of representing your project and can help fill in the gaps in your design. These diagrams will illustrate how someone interacts with your furniture as well as how it's put together. 

Instructions

In this assignment, we will learn about different types of diagrams, and how we can use each one to further communicate the ideas of your project. 

Review the presentation above to learn about the types of diagrams used by designers to communicate their ideas. Then, every member of the project team needs to create a Use Diagram and Technical Diagram. As you create your diagrams, consider how each one will highlight the core aspects of your idea. 

Keep in mind that these diagrams will be shared in your final presentation, so take care to make them clean and easily understandable. Consider tracing photographs of your prototype to help with perspective and proportions. You are encouraged to make multiple versions of your diagrams until you feel like you've done your best. Designers often make dozens of diagram drafts before sharing their work with their team or client. 

Draw a Use Diagram

1. Look back at examples of this presentation to understand different approaches 
2. Depict who is interacting with your project as well as how they are utilizing it.
3. Using arrows, color coding, and/or labels, point out the components of your project in your Use Diagram. 
4. If your furniture exists in different states, or transforms in someway, be sure to illustrate this in your diagram. 

Draw a Technical Diagram

1. Look back at examples in the presentation above. Notice how these examples deconstruct the object to show the individual elements. These elements are then connected with a dashed line.
2. Deconstruct or take apart your final project into multiple components. Try to highlight visually, how the project is put together to perform its functions.
   
   

Deliverables

Submit your Use Case and Technical Diagrams into the Response tab above. You and your partner(s) are encouraged to submit your own versions into individual posts. Alternatively, you may submit 1 technical and 1 use case diagram per team.