Design Methods And Processes

Question 1

Iterative design process

Answer 1

Circular set of steps that a designer will go through to solve a problem

Question 2

Can you go back to the steps before during iterative design process

Answer 2

Yes, designers or team of designers or engineers may go backwards and forwards between steps

Question 3

At any point in the design process, they might carry out evaluations. True or False

Answer 3

True

Question 4

User-centred design (UCD) and what does it ensure

Answer 4

Developing products with the end user fully in mind. This approach to design ensures your product will be easy to use.

Question 5

Designers who adopt UCD normally work to the principles set down in the international usability standard ISO

Answer 5

True, they are able to obtain more investors or entrepreneurs

Question 6

The principles of ISO 925-210:2010

Answer 6

-Design take full account of users
-Users are involved
-Design is refined by User-Centred evaluation
-Design process is iterative
-Design considers the whole user experience
-Design is developed by a multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary team

Question 7

Ergonomics are a key consideration for what type of method?

Answer 7

In products that have been developed using UCD methods

Question 8

How might a designer achieve a product that is easy and comfortable to use

Answer 8

Through anthropometric data to ensure a product fits their intended user. and through observing people using products, and employ consumer focus groups to identify problems with existing products

Question 9

what needs of consumers must a designer identify?

Answer 9

-Physical needs
-Emotional needs
-Intellectual needs
-Values and sociological needs

Question 10

Immersion investigation technique

Answer 10

putting themselves into the environment or situation that the user is in

Question 11

What does the immersive investigation technique enable the designer to gain?

Answer 11

A real understanding of the problems users have with products

Question 12

Interviewing potential clients

Answer 12

investigates their needs or wants

Question 13

Focus groups

Answer 13

Panels of potential customers who represent the target market.

Question 14

What data do focus groups obtain?

Answer 14

Qualitative data.

Question 15

Market research

Answer 15

Carried out using questionnaires and surveys. Obtains Quantitative data

Question 16

What can Market research identify?

Answer 16

The needs of the customers, explains why consumers choose one product over another, and helps designers make more informed decisions about how they will develop products.

Question 17

What does analysing, dissembling and evaluating existing products help identify?

Answer 17

useful materials, components, mechanisms, structures, and other useful features that can be adapted in a new product

Question 18

what does practical testing, components, construction, methods and finishes help identify?

Answer 18

what might be used in creating a new product, and how well the product works/lasts in usage

Question 19

What can human factors such as ergonomic issues can be discovered by observing potential customers using a product help identify?

Answer 19

whether the consumer has difficulties in using a product and potential improvements can be considered, and whether there are any issues in terms of comfort

Question 20

Why might designers conduct secondary research, such as internet or book research?

Answer 20

• To explore historical and contemporary designers or design movement
• To identify suitable materials, components and construction methods
• To obtain anthropometric data that is relevant to the age group of the target market

Question 21

The purpose of developing a design proposal

Answer 21

to work out a solution to a design problem

Question 22

What must design ideas consist of?

Answer 22

Usually annotated with critical and evaluative comments that how ideas meet the specification

Question 23

what does a designer do once a design idea is chosen?

Answer 23

Develops it into a final proposal

Question 24

What does a final design proposal include and involve?

Answer 24

Developing the aesthetics of the product, ensuring it is the correct size and proportion, and considering alternative materials and construction methods to select which is the most appropriate.
this involves making test pieces to test different materials.

Question 25

evaluation drawings

Answer 25

working drawings with dimensions, showing the front, plan and end view of the product and include sufficient detail.

Question 26

what must be done once the design has been finalised?

Answer 26

the manufacture is planned. this is a step by step plan detailing all the stages of manufacture. This includes tools and equipment that would be used, and a quality control check. and a cutting list.

Question 27

once the prototype is made what is done?

Answer 27

it is tested and evaluated for improvements before the final product is put into production.