CLIENT DESIGN DISCOVERY

Design Discovery Questionnaire

The best design begins with the right questions. Share what matters most about your property, lifestyle, priorities, and project, so Hetrick Design can begin with a clear, thoughtful design direction.

Design Discovery Questionnaire | Hetrick Design

Ready to send your design discovery?

After secure submission is connected, you will receive a confirmation email with an organized copy of everything you submitted for your records. Hetrick Design will receive the same response record plus an internal AI-assisted designer brief highlighting priorities, conflicts, planning opportunities, and items needing early clarification.

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Use & Copyright Notice: This Design Discovery Questionnaire, including its original structure, prompts, and presentation, is proprietary to Hetrick Design, LLC and is provided for use in connection with your Hetrick Design project. Please do not reproduce, distribute, or adapt the questionnaire itself for use by others. Your submitted responses remain available for your own project records and coordination. Questionnaire responses guide design exploration and do not modify the contracted scope of services.

What Happens After Design Discovery

Once your questionnaire is submitted, I’ll review your responses as part of the project’s design foundation and use them to identify priorities, relationships between spaces, planning opportunities, potential conflicts, and items that may need early clarification.

Your responses may help inform:

  • project goals and priorities
  • space planning and room relationships
  • site, orientation, access, and property considerations
  • architectural character and design preferences
  • budget priorities and areas where guidance may be helpful
  • future needs, flexibility, and long-term planning
  • questions or decisions that should be addressed before design moves forward

You do not need to treat every response as a final decision. Design Discovery is intended to establish direction, uncover priorities, and give me a clearer understanding of how you want the project to function and feel.

As the design develops, some ideas may be refined, combined, reconsidered, or adjusted based on the site, budget, structure, building science, code requirements, and the overall design.

If I need clarification on anything you submitted, I’ll follow up directly. Otherwise, your questionnaire becomes part of the information I use to guide the next stage of the project.

Dustin Hetrick, CPBD
Principal | Hetrick Design