|  | 8.1 | Basic Network Design and Documentation
| 8.1.3 | General network design process

In technical fields, such as engineering, the design process includes:

- designer - person doing the design
- client - person who has requested, and is probably paying for, the design
- user(s) - person(s) who will be using the product
- brainstorming - generation of creative ideas for the design
- specifications development - usually numbers which will measure how well the design works
- building and testing - to meet client objectives and satisfy certain standards

One of the methods you can use in the process of creating a design is the problem solving cycle. This is a process that you use repeatedly until you finish a design problem.

One of the methods that engineers use to organize their ideas and plans when doing a design is to use the problem-solving matrix. This matrix lists alternatives and various choices, or options, from which you can choose.

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