a usually an outline of key components and their arrangement with the details of the design left for a later stage
The first phase of design, in which drawings are the dominant tool and product. Usually, drawings in this phase are composed of simple, single-line floor plans, building sections, elevations, and site plans.
Design phase (also called Preliminary Design) that follows “Space Program/Space Planning,†and precedes “Schematic Design.†Based on the space program this phase typically includes overall building layouts and block diagrams per functional area. Read more about Conceptual Design.
A major stage in the design process, through which the project team translates the business requirements into a common language to be shared by users and developers, and describes the feature set and/or usage scenarios that the solution must encompass.
Detailed design showing an object in question.