What are the advantages and limitations of the design cycle as means to making a product\solution?

The design cycle has many advantages but at the same time it may have disadvantages. The design cycle has to go through some steps (Investigate, design, plan, create, evaluate). When you have a plan and you have to go step by step your work will end up being more organized. Every step of your design cycle is very important and so the final project will be very complete if you go through them and you analyze them well. Having a plan and something you have to follow will help you get the final product you wanted to have and it will be very organized and you will gain a lot of knowledge you did not know from investigating and using new tools and new applications. Another thing that can happen while you go through the design cycle is that new ideas can come up that are better than the one you had.

Even though there are more advantages than disadvantages, there are still limitations. Going step by step in a design cycle requires a lot of time and maybe you concentrate way to much doing the design and then you put less effort in your final product. It depends on the person, but there are some people that can spend a lot of time investigation, then designing, the planning, etc. and while you go through those things you may change your mind many many times so then you would have to re-start all over again an investigate on your new project.

Regardless from the disadvantages I still think that a design cycle is a thing we should all go through when we have a project in mind. If there is a product we want to do we have to go through this cycle and time will be required if you want to end up having a good product.