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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine project requirements
   • Evaluate project specifications, parameters and constraints, and confirm with client
   • Identify and assess aspects of the space that impact on potential solutions
   • Identify key project stakeholders and establish required communication protocols
2. Research furniture and accessories options
   • Source and assess style options that match the brief
   • Analyse and review intended use against functional features of different products
   • Consider and investigate new technologies for manufacturing and maintaining furniture and accessories
   • Consider and investigate relevant anthropometrics, ergonomics and spatial relationships
   • Analyse and evaluate product properties for their suitability and sustainability
   • Source and compare information about costs and availability against the project brief
3. Refine ideas and select preferred solution
   • Explore, integrate and refine different options through a process of reflection and testing
   • Choose a preferred solution based on research findings and the key objectives of the project brief
   • Prepare a visual representation that communicates the key aspects of the preferred solution
4. Make recommendations to client
   • Present recommendations in a format and level of detail suited to the client and scope of the project
   • Clearly articulate rationale for the chosen solution and present to the client
   • Provide cost estimates associated with purchasing and obtaining the furniture and accessories to the client
   • Seek client feedback on the proposed solution
   • Base adjustments made to the final design solution on feedback