Product evolution and development

Design and technology

Smart materials in design

Explore contexts and empathise

Product analysis and quality standards

Redesign

Develop ideas using feedback

Design optimisation

Present an idea

In this unit, pupils will develop knowledge of smart and modern materials and apply this to designing a product to support new parents. They will develop strategies for generating ideas by investigating a specific context.

Developments in new materials: supporting new parents

What are the steps used to create or improve a product called?

Complete the sentence: The design process often consists of five main stages, including empathising, defining, {{}}, prototyping and testing.

True or false? Designing is only creative when innovative ideas are produced.

What are the stages called that a product goes through once it is developed?

Complete the sentence: A market {{}} is when the demand of people drives the creation of a new product.

Complete the sentence: A __________ property is a characteristic of a material.

What material properties relates to the aesthetical elements of a material?

What type of materials change their material properties in response to an external stimulus?

What is the stimulus that makes photochromic materials change colour?

What is a stimulus for a piezoelectric material?

Starter Quiz

Complete the sentence: A __________ property is a characteristic of a material.