Year 10 - Design and technology
Evaluation of market and user testing: saving space
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Unit Summary
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.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to conduct market testing and analyse the feedback to inform an evaluation.
Key Notes
- Once a prototype is completed, evaluating your prototype and design is important.
- Designers need to gather other people's opinions rather than just their own.
- Gathering feedback from the user and the target market is essential to ensure the prototype meets the needs of the user.
Vocabulary To Learn
- evaluate: to judge how a product meets the chosen criteria
- user: who you are designing for
- target market: the specific group of people a product is designed and sold for
- market testing: trying out a product with the target market and users to see how well it works and whether they like it
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The final evaluation is based upon the designer's perspective of the prototype and design process.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Once a prototype is completed, evaluating your prototype and design is important. Designers need to gather other people's opinions rather than just their own.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'evaluate'
to judge how a product meets the chosen criteria.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: The final evaluation is based upon the designer's perspective of the prototype and design process. Correction: Testing and evaluations from the user and target market are essential to ensure the product meets the clients needs but is also commercially viable.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Commercial viability: saving space Study Guide
- Define a brief from design opportunities: saving space Study Guide
- Design development with CAD: saving space Study Guide
- Design for manufacture: saving space Study Guide
- Digital Media Presentation: saving space Study Guide
- Disassemble flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Explore the context and avoid fixation Study Guide
- Iterate with CAD: saving space Study Guide
- Iterate with modelling: saving space Study Guide
- Laser cutting Study Guide
- Life cycle assessment of flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Quality assurance when manufacturing: saving space Study Guide
- Sketch modelling: saving space Study Guide
- Specialist techniques and processes for manufacture: saving space Study Guide
- Specialist tools and equipment for manufacture: saving space Study Guide
- Standardised components Study Guide
- Surface treatments and finishes: saving space Study Guide
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