Crafting the design brief is often the first task of the design process and an arduous one. Design brief serves as the guiding beacon for the designer or design team to understand needs and envision intent, position stakeholders, qualify requirements, identify key criteria, outline objectives, and clarify if the ‘task’ is in line with the ask. Literature reports on the process of ‘briefing’ and ‘reframing’, and further articulates the structural components of a brief. Vision, Need statement, Criteria; and Goals characterise the final state of a brief, yet designers struggle with the process. This paper investigates the quality and structuring of design briefs developed by novice designers, individually versus in multi-disciplinary design teams, to assess the implication of teaming up and finds a significant improvement. After all, design is a team sport!
