Reflection and self-appraisal presents itself as crucial aspect of successful design projects. There are different critical aspects that underly reflective practice, those include documentation, feedback, and insight. Design activity depends on documentation of nearly everything you do or think to design. Documentation can include sketches, digital drawings, prototypes, mock-ups. It is used to introduce sense-making and structure. Through sharing your design logs online, we encourage feedback to help you improve. Insights arise through the synthesis of learning from doing documented in design notes, written scribbles, and discussions. A design log helps by encouraging a systematic description and reflection on otherwise unstructured and messy design processes.
The design log is broken down according to project design stages and by ‘type’ of design activities: