Lesson video

Hello, thank you for joining me for design and technology lesson.

My name is Mrs. Conway, and I will be guiding you through your learning today.

So today's lesson outcome is, "I can present and explain my final developed design idea." And our keywords are final design, present, reflect, and justify.

I'll go through each one of those in turn as we work our way through today's lesson.

So the first thing we're going to look at then is the design journey.

Reaching a final design outcome that you feel confident presenting and explain to others can be a long and challenging design journey.

If we have a little look example here, it can feel like you've kind of jumped all over the place from that empathise to define, to ideate, to prototyped, and to test.

You finally get that final design outcome but it's never as straightforward as just a straightforward, always going forward continuous line.

It can go a little bit higgledy piggly at times.

Now designers take pride in their designs and reflect on the design journey that has taken place.

Now designers reflect so as to understand what worked and what didn't, to learn from mistakes and grow.

That one's really, really important.

Also to improve future ideas and solutions and to justify decisions that have been made as well.

Now reflection can lead to improved and more thoughtful designs.

It's a really important stage through the design journey to actually reflect.

Okay, quick check for understanding on that then.

Why do designers reflect on their design journey? Is it A, to make it quicker next time, B, to learn from mistakes, or C, to justify decisions that have been made? Feel free to pause the video here.

Just take a moment to think about your answer.

Now there are many stages to reflect upon throughout the design journey, and this is the design process that we can actually reflect upon as we work through.

So we have empathise, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

But there are even stages with in stages such as the iterative process.

So actually, when we come to ideate, we sometimes then move on to prototype, we then test that prototype, and then we actually refine that idea and go back to ideate again.

So we're actually reflecting within the actual design process, within that small section of the design process.

It's kind of part of the design process all the time.

It's quite a natural part to be constantly reflecting.

And designers will reflect on mistakes made and also failed tasks, such as when prototyping.

These challenges will have helped shape the final design outcome.

And it's important to understand that the design journey never really ends.

Products and ideas are constantly evolving.

If you think about your make of mobile phone, for example, if you are always loyal to that particular brand or that particular style of phone, you will notice that it's always evolving, there's always new ones coming out, and there's always improvements on it.

Also, new problems and user needs emerge as well.

And final designs can always be improved.

That's not a problem.

Just because it's called final design, well, actually that still means it can be improved in some way.

Okay, another quick check for understanding then.

Fill in the missing word in this sentence.

It is important to understand that the design journey never really.

Pause the video here.

Just take a moment to think about your answer.

And the missing word was "ends." It's important to understand that the design journey never really ends.

Now reflecting on major decisions along the design journey can support designers when presenting and explaining their final design outcome.

Now this can include reflecting on decisions such as, why did you choose a particular idea, what materials, shapes, functions, or styles were considered, how did user feedback affect your choices.

Now, every design decision should have a reason, and these should then be justified.

Now, Andeep reflects on his own design journey from the context, "Developments in new materials: Supporting new parents." And Andeep decides to reflect on his journey by evaluating the stages of the design process that he completed.

So he completed empathise, define, ideate, and test.

Now Andeep records his reflective thoughts in a design journey timeline.

Now just remind ourselves the context was, "Developments in new materials: Supporting new parents." So the first thing he did was to empathise.

He considered who his user was, which was a single parent with a newborn, and identified the needs and wants.

He then considered the poor experiences of using medical products for children.

And then he moved on to define.

And he defined that he wanted to do or look at an improved medical product for babies and children based on his empathise research.

He carried out product analysis, looking at and identifying any issues.

And he gained knowledge in smart materials and also safety requirements.

Then moved on to really think and redesign the medical dispenser under ideate.

And he used a list of design requirements and scamper to generate his design ideas.

User feedback also helped him to develop the idea a little bit further as well.

And you can see there where his developed ideas.

He then moved on to two testing.

So he looked at design optimization, helped find the idea making it more realistic and also suitable for all considerations.

So that's his timeline.

It also resulted, of course, in this final design outcome.

Now, each stage, Andeep reflects on the following questions.

What actually happened? What worked well? Was there any setbacks or changes? The key design decisions, and also why the decision was made? So he's just commented thinking about some of these questions.

Throughout the empathy stage, I explored the context and tried empathising with my chosen user by completing a user journey map.

This helped me identify problems that new parents experience, especially when new babies are feeling unwell.

Okay, it's going to be over to you now to complete a task.

I'd like you to create a reflective timeline of your design journey.

I'd like you to reflect on stages of the design process that you have completed.

So empathise, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

At each stage, just briefly note what actually happened, what worked well, were there any setbacks or changes, and key design decisions and why the decision was made.

Okay, pause the video here to have a go at this task and good luck.

Okay, let's look at an example answer.

So your answer could look a little bit like this, and this is the example I showed you before.

So just look back at your timeline.

Have you considered all of those key points that I listed before? Andeep has also gone on to answer as well.

"Throughout the empathy stage, I explored the context and tried to empathise with my chosen user by completing a user journey map.

This helped me to identify problems that new parents experience, especially when newborn babies are feeling well." Just compare your answer to Andeeps, and see how you've got on with that.

So next, we're going to look at presenting an idea.

Presenting your final design outcome is an important part of the design process as it helps you to communicate your thinking to others.

It helps you understand the value and function of your design.

And it also creates opportunities for feedback, recognition, and improvement.

Right.

Quick check for understanding on that then.

Presenting your final design outcome is an important part of the design process as, it communicates your thinking, it marks the end of the process, and it creates opportunities for feedback.

Pause the video here.

Just take a moment to think about your answer.

And the correct answer, there were two.

So, it communicates your thinking, but also it creates opportunities for feedback.

Well done if you got that right.

Now, when presenting and explaining final design outcome, you could include the problem you aimed to solve, key moments from the design journey, major design choices which are justified, a visual representation of the final design such as how it works and why it matters.

Also, any setbacks on what you learned from this as well.

Now, when presenting your final design outcome, use one or a combination of hand drawn sketches, physical prototypes, CAD models and renderings, and also AI generated visuals.

Okay, quick check for understanding again.

When presenting your final design outcome, you should use which one of these? Tick any that apply.

Pause the video here to take a moment to think about your answer, and good luck.

And the correct answers were hand drawn sketches and also physical prototypes.

The non-relevant images are exactly that they are not relevant.

Now Andeep decides to use a combination of hand-drawn sketches, CAD drawings, and renderings whilst integrating AI generated visuals to support the understanding of the final design outcome.

And Andeep just explained here, "I want to present my final design outcome using a good quality CAD rendering.

This will have a strong visual impact and convey my design thinking well.

I will also include lots of annotation to explain my design journey and also my design decisions." So Andeep has decided that as part of presenting his idea, he wants to show his design journey.

And this is his design journey and a way that he's decided to show it.

So the new parent poor experiences using medical products, his exploration, his ideation, the feedback and the development, and the optimization.

So he's not included as much detail as before.

He's just picked out the really key parts here before showing the final design outcome, which was the medicine dispenser.

He's annotated this.

So controlled measure of medicine, thumb wheel and handles enable one hand use by the parent, thumb wheel to rotate, which helps dispense the medicine in a safe way, a silicon tip, so comfort for the baby or child, hydrochromic ink displays bright colours when medicine is inside, and distracts the baby and child and hides the medicine away from view.

Also, silicon pad to rest against the palm.

He's also shown it in slightly different formats as well.

So he's explained that the smart material is not reactive, and he's shown how it actually works in terms of adding the medicine, then the smart material reacts and the components separate for easy cleaning as well.

So he concluded lots of detail, shown it from different angles, showed separate components, and also shown it working so it's really clear how this idea actually works.

Okay, over to you.

I'd like you to present and explain your final design outcome.

Consider the following.

The problem you aim to solve, key moments from your design journey as Andeep showed you with his, major design decisions, justified, and visual representations of the final design and these can include sketches, CAD, prototypes, and AI visuals.

Also any setbacks and what you learned from this.

Okay, pause the video here to have a go at this task, and good luck.

Right, so your answer could include these.

It could include and should include some form of design journey.

Now, yours won't look exactly the same as this, but hopefully you've picked out those key points along the way of the design journey, and also any decisions that are being made in there as well.

And also then your fun design should be represented in a way that is really clear with annotation, and just explains anything that is not really clear in the image alone.

If you remember.

And in Andeeps, he's also explained how the actual product works, and just explained a few kind of key bits here, such as the smart material not being reactive, for example, and why the smart material reacts as well.

Okay, let's summarise today's lesson.

Today we've been looking at presenting an idea.

Now designers take pride in their designs and reflect on the design journey that has taken place.

Now designers reflect to understand what has worked, what they can learn from their mistakes, and to help justify their design decisions.

Reflecting on major decisions along the design journey can support designers when presenting and explaining their final design outcome.

Presenting your final design outcome supports communicating your thinking and provides opportunities for further feedback.

When presenting your final design, you may wish to include details about your design journey and also visual representations.

And these could include things such as hand or CAD sketches, prototypes, or AI generated visuals.

Well done for all of your hard work today.

Thank you so much for joining me for the lesson, and I will see you soon.