a cycle of creating, testing, and improving a design until it meets the user’s needs

any content created, stored, or shared using digital technology

Digital Media Presentation: saving space

Design and technology

Explore the context and avoid fixation

Disassemble flat pack furniture

Standardised components

Life cycle assessment of flat pack furniture

Define a brief from design opportunities: saving space

Sketch modelling: saving space

Iterate with modelling: saving space

Design development with CAD: saving space

Iterate with CAD: saving space

Design for manufacture: saving space

Laser cutting

Specialist tools and equipment for manufacture: saving space

Specialist techniques and processes for manufacture: saving space

Quality assurance when manufacturing: saving space

Surface treatments and finishes: saving space

Commercial viability: saving space

Evaluation of market and user testing: saving space

Pupils will use disassembly to investigate an existing piece of flat-pack furniture, including material sources. They will use this information to inform designs. Pupils will focus on user-centred design to create and develop ideas and then plan the manufacturer for a product.

Iterative design: Student Living

It does not show the designer’s process.

It shows how design ideas develop from start to finish.

It is only a single final drawing of the product.

It includes sketches, research, models, and evaluations.

Which statements about a design portfolio are correct?

It replaces the need to test or evaluate the product.

It communicates the designer’s ideas and shows why they made certain decisions.

It helps the designer to improve their designs.

The {{}} design process is a cycle of creating, testing, and improving a design until it meets the user’s needs.

All design portfolios must be handwritten on paper.

The designer can choose how to present their design portfolio.

Digital media can be used to present a design portfolio.

Digital media only includes printed drawings and sketches.

Which statements about presenting a design portfolio are correct?

What is it called when you judge something against the chosen criteria?

Gathering feedback from the user and the target market is called ...

to check if they have met their original wants and needs

Why does a designer need to go back to their user when completing market testing?

The {{}} market is the specific group of people a product is designed and sold for.

a group of examiners who mark the design portfolio

a random selection of people with no link to the product

a team of professional designers who create the final product

a small group of your users/customers who give feedback on ideas or prototypes

so they can make informed decisions about future design improvements

so they can ignore the user’s opinions and stick to their first idea

so they can make the portfolio longer without improving the design

Why does a designer need to evaluate the feedback they collect?

Starter Quiz