a gap or a need where a new or improved product would be beneficial

focusing so heavily on one idea that creativity and problem-solving become limited

a statement which explains what you are going to design and manufacture

Define a brief from design opportunities: communal areas

Design and technology

Explore the context and avoid fixation

Disassemble flat pack furniture

Standardised components

Life cycle assessment of flat pack furniture

Sketch modelling: communal areas

Iterate with modelling: communal areas

Design development with CAD: communal areas

Iterate with CAD: communal areas

Design for manufacture: communal areas

CAM: communal areas

Specialist tools and equipment for manufacture: communal areas

Specialist techniques and processes for manufacture: communal areas

Quality assurance when manufacturing: communal areas

Surface treatments and finishes: communal areas

Commercial viability: communal areas

Market testing: communal areas

Evaluate user needs and wants: communal areas

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

Design {{}} is when you only consider one possibility and then sometimes miss an even better solution.

Different users have different wants and needs.

It's important because all users want the same thing.

It's important so you can skip user research.

Why is it important to identify who your user is?

A short statement outlining the design opportunity and identifies a user's needs and wants is called a ...

A design brief should be __________ to avoid design fixation.

a marketing strategy used to promote new products

the stages a product goes through while aiming to reduce environmental impact

the process of designing only reusable products

A linear product life cycle is also called cradle to {{}}

What is it called when a designer creates products that are not only sustainable but also ethical and inclusive?

to focus solely on reducing production costs, regardless of environmental impact

to make products more complex and difficult to manufacture

to evaluate and minimise the environmental impact of a product at every stage

Why do designers carry out life cycle assessments?

At what stage of the product life cycle would you consider energy consumption, resource use and emissions from material processing?

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