Year 10 - Design and technology
Market testing: 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 conduct market testing and analyse the feedback to inform an evaluation.
Key Notes
- Once a prototype is completed, it is important to evaluate your prototype and design.
- To do this effectively, the designer needs 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.
- Market testing is trying out a product with your target market and users to see how well it works and if they like it.
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 designers 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, it is important to evaluate your prototype and design. To do this effectively, the designer needs 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 designers 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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