Many engineers, researchers and educators have attempted to describe designing by creating charts that depict few or many design strategies and putting them into a broadly applicable model of design. No model created thus far has been universally accepted.

•  Design Tutorial  Watch a movie that gives an overview on the design process and commentary on teaching it.
•  7 Models of the Design Process  Compare the strengths and weaknesses of linear, cyclic, spiral, and other design models, from simple 3-step models to those that are quite complex.
•  Designer Roles   Get practice recognizing different roles students in design teams can play, including those of a manager, reporter, designer and scientist.
•  Ways of Naive Designers  Learn about how naive designers work quite differently from expert designers, from strategies to pedagogies which help them avoid these pitfalls.
•  Design & Inquiry  Differentiate between these critical, related tasks, both of which come into play when students do design activities.
•  Design Gestures/Artifacts  Designers describe their design ideas with more than words -- see other communication modes - drawing, gestures, and the handling of nearby artifacts - that you will encounter when your students start designing.
•  Student Design Talk  Listen to interviews of students as describe their design process in their own words.