Year 10 - Design and technology
Explore the context and avoid fixation
Communal areas context
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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 identify design opportunities whilst avoiding design fixation.
Key Notes
- Designers use mind maps to explore a context considering the 4Ws.
- To avoid fixation designers identify design opportunities from a context.
Vocabulary To Learn
- context: the situation within which something exists or happens
- design opportunity: a gap or a need where a new or improved product would be beneficial
- design fixation: consider only one possible solution
- mindmap: a visual way to organise ideas around a main topic using connected branches
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may come with an idea or even a solution at this stage and stick with it as they feel they do not need another idea.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Designers use mind maps to explore a context considering the 4Ws. To avoid fixation designers identify design opportunities from a context.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'context'
the situation within which something exists or happens.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils may come with an idea or even a solution at this stage and stick with it as they feel they do not need another idea. Correction: Encourage pupils to explore a range of ideas and possibilities to avoid design fixation and prepare them for the NEA.
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
- Digital Media Presentation: communal areas Study Guide
- Disassemble flat pack furniture 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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