Assignment 4: Design Thinking (Kirk Newton, Alyssa Hamilton, Shannon Earnest, Scott Holmes, Daniel Ha, Kris Li)

• Designing our product to function with a minimum number of parts, including reducing the number and types of joints and redesigning each rib to be a single piece reduced the budget and increased the structural integrity of the product as a whole. 
• Use of prefabricated joints allows us to create a product with consistent reliability across each individual span, as opposed to relying on the variable quality of handmade joints and having to remake unsatisfactory ones, thereby saving time and money. 
• Designing a structure that is easily collapsible and dissassemblable not only gives the user a product that goes beyond the use case of a static structure, but is also inherently easy to build and move, easing the initial construction sequence and transportation process.
• Scheduling the drawing and construction process resulted in us being able to reduce the workload on each member, by having us determine what we needed to do beforehand. This ensures that the group does not fail to produce a critical element, or unintentionally waste time and effort on outputs that we cannot use.
• By scaling details in the design, we can treat groups of parts as individual elements as the scale of the drawings increases, reducing the level of apparent complexity of the project during the construction process.