Product evolution and development

Design and technology

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 using primary research and analysis through the investigation of a 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