U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Celebrate over 100 years of Conservation
Dust off your hiking boots, grab the fishing pole or dig out those binoculars…National Wildlife Refuge Week is heading your way, October 11-17. "It is my hope that citizens across the country will take advantage of this weeklong celebration to experience wildlife in their natural habitats and play a firsthand role in conservation by participating in special events and programs, or simply observing and enjoying the great outdoors at a local refuge," said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Find a refuge near you.
The Process of Design
Design Methods is a broad area that focuses on:
- Divergence – Exploring possibilities and constraints of inherited situations by applying critical thinking through qualitative and quantitative research methods to create new understanding (problem space) toward better design solutions
- Transformation – Redefining specifications of design solutions which can lead to better guidelines for traditional and contemporary design activities (architecture, graphic, industrial, information, interaction, et al.) and/or multidisciplinary response
- Convergence – Prototyping possible scenarios for better design solutions that incrementally or significantly improve the originally inherited situation
- Sustainability – Managing the process of exploring, redefining and prototyping of design solutions continually over time
- Articulation - the visual relationship between the parts and the whole.
The goal of design methods is to gain key insights or unique essential truths resulting in more holistic solutions in order to achieve better experiences for users with products, services, environments and systems they rely upon. Insight, in this case, is clear and deep investigation of a situation through design methods, thereby grasping the inner nature of things intuitively.
News
Threatened and Endangered Species: Achieving Recovery and Preventing Extinction 2007 Threatened and Endangered Species Expenditures Report Announced
September 21, 2009
The Service, 27 other federal agencies and most state agencies reported their expenditures made for federally protected species in fiscal year 2007.
