Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine project requirements
- Evaluate project specifications, parameters and constraints, and confirm with client
- Select work resources based on the needs of the project
- Identify and assess aspects of the space that impact on potential solutions
- Take and document accurate measurements of floors, furniture, and window openings
- Collect and develop visual aids of all existing and continuing structures, furniture and furnishings that inform the project
- Establish communication with other people involved in the project
- Research soft furnishing options
- Source and assess style designs that match the brief in regards to form and function
- Source and assess fabrics, trims and/or componentry options that match the brief
- Research, assess and consider visual and tactile characteristics of different products
- Analyse and review intended use against functional and technical features of different products
- Consider and investigate new technologies and innovations for their application to the brief
- Analyse and evaluate product properties for their suitability
- Identify and consider installation constraints
- Source and compare information about costs and availability against the project brief
- Identify and integrate potential sustainability features or issues into the research process
- Refine ideas and select preferred solution
- Explore, integrate and refine different options through a process of reflection and testing
- Choose a preferred solution that includes fabrics, furnishings and fixing technologies 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
- Make recommendation 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 documented product specifications and cost estimates associated with sourcing, manufacturing and installation of the soft furnishings to the client
- Seek client feedback on the proposed solution
- Make adjustments to the final design solution based on feedback
- Evaluate work through feedback and own reflection, and identify potential improvements for use in future projects