Year 10 - Design and technology
Digital Media Presentation: communal areas
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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 use digital media to present your design portfolio.
Key Notes
- A design portfolio is a collection of a designer's work.
- A design portfolio shows the journey including all of the ideas that were not taken through or were not successful.
- A design portfolio should reflect the iterative way in which the designer has worked.
- Digital media can be used to present a design portfolio.
- The iterative design process is a cycle of creating, testing, and improving a design until it meets the user's needs.
Vocabulary To Learn
- design portfolio: a collection of designer's work
- iterative design process: a cycle of creating, testing, and improving a design until it meets the user's needs
- digital media: any content created, stored, or shared using digital technology
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A design portfolio should only include your best work and your best ideas.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
A design portfolio is a collection of a designer's work. A design portfolio shows the journey including all of the ideas that were not taken through or were not successful.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'design portfolio'
a collection of designer's work.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: A design portfolio should only include your best work and your best ideas. Correction: A design portfolio should show the journey of the designer, including all of the ideas that were not taken through or were not successful.
More Lessons In This Unit
- CAM: communal areas Study Guide
- Commercial viability: communal areas Study Guide
- Define a brief from design opportunities: communal areas Study Guide
- Design development with CAD: communal areas Study Guide
- Design for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Disassemble flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Explore the context and avoid fixation Study Guide
- Iterate with CAD: communal areas Study Guide
- Iterate with modelling: communal areas Study Guide
- Life cycle assessment of flat pack furniture Study Guide
- Market testing: communal areas Study Guide
- Quality assurance when manufacturing: communal areas Study Guide
- Sketch modelling: communal areas Study Guide
- Specialist techniques and processes for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Specialist tools and equipment for manufacture: communal areas Study Guide
- Standardised components Study Guide
- Surface treatments and finishes: communal areas Study Guide
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