🎯 Learning Intention

Today I will analyze a real-world example of iteration and explain how it connects to my own design work.

✅ Success Criteria

I can describe how iteration improved a real product and apply that idea to changes I could make in my own CAD design.

🌍 Why Are We Learning This?

Every tool, app, and device we use today exists because someone kept improving the first version. Understanding iteration helps you see mistakes not as failures but as the start of better solutions.

🧠 Warm-Up – Tech Journal Prompt

💡 “What’s something you use every day that has been updated or improved since it was first created? (Think: phones, apps, cars, even shoes!)”

📚 Word of the Day

Version Control

• Definition: Tracking and managing changes to a design or system over time.
• Sentence: “Google Docs uses version control so you can restore older drafts.”
• Why it matters: Version control helps designers manage iteration without losing earlier work.

📣 Formative Lecture & Case Study (15 min)

• Show a case study (pick one):
  • iPhone evolution (from the first model → modern versions).
  • Tesla autopilot updates (software patches improving safety).
  • Minecraft updates (patches, new features, bug fixes).
• Walk through:
  1. What was the first version like?
  2. What problems did users find?
  3. How did iteration solve those problems?
  4. What’s the system like today?

✅ CFU #1: Quick discussion — “Why do you think the designers didn’t wait to release a perfect version?”