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32 e design process Understanding the space Understanding building structures Organising the space e human interface Sustainable design Communicating design Understanding the project Having met the client and taken a brief, the detailed analysis can begin. You need to be sure that you understand all that the client needs. Sometimes this will have been explicitly stated, at other times you will have to make inferences from the information that you have. Design analysis Collecting information You also have to perform a careful balancing act with the raw information. Your judgement will be crucial in deciding whether the client has actually understood their own needs. Remember that clients have engaged you because they believe that they need a professional, which implies that they are not experts, so some of the assumptions they have made may not be correct and it will be down to you to put them right. If you were to produce a fi nished design solution where you had managed to 'tick all the boxes' they ought to be content with the solution provided. But 'content' is not what you should be aiming for. Something extraordinary, even revolutionary, can o en only be realised when you don't simply provide the client with the answer that they think they need. Special things happen when insight leads to turning an idea on its head, or doing something contrary to what the client is expecting, or doing it in a way that hasn't been done before, will answer the brief in a be er, more effi cient or more beautiful way. Unusual ideas will need to be thoroughly tested and resolved during the later development stages of the design process to ensure that they really do work, but it 's these ideas that will yield a delighted client, not just one who is 'content'.