Getting Curious: Information to feed your creativity

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BA/BSc Product Design

Nov 2015

So far so good

Previously we looked at:

• What we have

• Why we have them

• What to use and when

Today we will look at....

•Being curious

•Keywords

•Search tips

Why research?

cat

cat

Thinking about keywords

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossjamesparker/89414788/

product AND design

USA OR America

design*

Cork NOT Ireland

-Amazon

“Festival of Britain”

+Ideo or “IDEO”

Define: “paper prototyping”

James Dyson invented *

Scandinavian site: design OR “Scandinavian design” site: ac

Related:www.designcouncil.org.uk

Streamlining your search

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_miley/2614472057/

Find out more

http://www.slideshare.net/EISLibrarian/using-the-internet-38590479

Google image search

Categories

Try these too

Copyright free imagesGoogle image search > Search tools > Labelled for reuse

http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/copyright/index.aspx

Uploaded

photo

‘Paste image

URL’ or

‘Upload and

image’

https://www.flickr.com/

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