Abstract
Design or problem solving is a natural human activity. We have been designing and acting as designers (sometimes unconsciously) throughout our lives. Design begins with the acknowledgment of needs and dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs and realization that some action must take place in order to correct the problem. When a small child moves a stool to an appropriate location so that she can use it to get to her toy, she has acted as a designer — of a rudimentary design — by positioning the stool so that she can satisfy her need of playing with the toy.
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Functional Requirement Design Solution Fuzzy Subset Membership Grade Independence Axiom
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