I attended my first lecture for the module Design, Development, Creativity yesterday and I found it fascinating and I am very much looking forward to engaging with the module over the course of the semester. What stood out for me from yesterday's lecture was the activity we carried out in small groups on Buxton's avalanche case. The case described an event whereby friends skiing got caught in an avalanche and one of their friends, Saul was missing. During their avalanche training, the friends were given instructions on which of their survival tools (probe, shovel, transmitter) to use in which order and how to go about the rescue triage (rescuing the most able individuals first before moving on to the least able).Having not followed the sequence of their training in exact order, the group of friends still managed to save Saul within 10minutes. What stood out for me from this exercise was the fact that systems are complex entities which comprise of many independent factors