Year 9 - Design and technology
Develop ideas using feedback
Developments in new materials: supporting new parents
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils will develop knowledge of smart and modern materials and apply this to designing a product to support new parents. They will develop strategies for generating ideas by investigating a specific context.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to gather and analyse user feedback to inform design developments.
Key Notes
- Designers share ideas with sketches.
- Designers share ideas to gather feedback which influence design developments and decisions.
- Designers use user feedback to inform and support design iteration.
Vocabulary To Learn
- user feedback: information provided by users about their opinions and insights into design ideas
- iterative: refining and improving
- design development: the process of refining and evolving design ideas through feedback testing, and iteration
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- User feedback is just opinions, it's not useful when developing designs.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Designers share ideas with sketches. Designers share ideas to gather feedback which influence design developments and decisions.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'user feedback'
information provided by users about their opinions and insights into design ideas.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: User feedback is just opinions, it's not useful when developing designs. Correction: Feedback is largely based on opinions. However, it provides real world insight into how people interact see, understand and would use a design.
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