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Considerations for production

Inclusive Design: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Unit Summary

This unit explores inclusive design with a focus on mental health and wellbeing. Students research user needs, generate ideas, and prototype solutions, developing empathy, creativity, and problem-solving while considering feasibility and real-world impact.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to assess the feasibility and commercial viability of your design.

Key Notes

  • Design feasibility assesses whether a product can realistically be made.
  • Commercial viability assesses whether a product is likely to succeed in the market.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • feasibility: the practicality of manufacturing a design
  • commercial viability: the likelihood that a product can be profitably made and sold
  • sustainability: designing with consideration for environmental and social impacts

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • If a prototype works, it can definitely be manufactured successfully.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Design feasibility assesses whether a product can realistically be made. Commercial viability assesses whether a product is likely to succeed in the market.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'feasibility'

the practicality of manufacturing a design.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: If a prototype works, it can definitely be manufactured successfully. Correction: Functionality doesn't guarantee feasibility or success. A design might work in one-off form but fail in cost, scale, or sustainability when made commercially.

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