The four steps of the design cycle are investigate, plan, create, evaluate. First you have to investigate your topic or what you're looking for. That's the first step the next step is to plan. You have to know what youhave to do , so you create it. The third step is to create it to see if it came out the way you planned it. The last step is to evaluate. You do this because when everything is the way you want it to be you evaluate it, and then you finish the design cycle