Year 9 - Design and technology
Redesign
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 use SCAMPER to redesign and evolve existing ideas.
Key Notes
- To support the ideation stage of the design process, designers will produce a list of design requirements.
- A design requirement is something which is needed or wanted to make a product successful.
- Designers use different strategies to support ideation. One strategy is to redesign existing products.
- To support the redesign of existing products, a thinking tool called SCAMPER can be used.
- SCAMPER is an acronym that helps designers generate new ideas, develop ideas and redesign existing ideas.
Vocabulary To Learn
- design requirements: something which is needed or wanted to make a product successful
- redesign: the process of changing or improving an existing product
- SCAMPER: an acronym that stands for: substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate and reverse. It is a creative thinking tool that helps generate new ideas
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Redesigning and evolving existing products is not really designing and does not show any creativity or innovation.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
To support the ideation stage of the design process, designers will produce a list of design requirements. A design requirement is something which is needed or wanted to make a product successful.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'design requirements'
something which is needed or wanted to make a product successful.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Redesigning and evolving existing products is not really designing and does not show any creativity or innovation. Correction: Redesigning existing products is a part of design work and often requires significant creativity, insight, and innovation. Some of the most impactful design breakthroughs came not from inventing something new, but from improving what already exists.
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