Section One - The Design Process

Question 1

What do disassembly mean

Answer 1

Taking a product apart and examining the bits

Question 2

When you do a disassembly what do you have to do before you start

Answer 2

Take a photo of the packaging and food and take notes

Question 3

What do you have to write about in a disassembly

Answer 3

The measurements
The textures and colours
How the product is put together
How it tastes, smells and looks

Question 4

What is on the packaging of a product

Answer 4

The cost
The ingredients
Nutritional information showing how healthy it is
Clues from the style about target market
Storage and cooking instructions which tell you where to keep the product and how to prepare it

Question 5

What should you think bout when deciding which faults to make better

Answer 5

The quality, quantity and proportion of ingredients
The size,shape,weight,appearance, texture and flavour
The quality and effectiveness of the packaging
The price
The nutritional value

Question 6

What do you have to do before designing anything

Answer 6

Decide who your target market is

Question 7

What is a target group

Answer 7

The group of people you want to sell your product to e.g grouped by age,gender,job, hobbies,lifestyle,income etc

Question 8

What should you ask your target group generally

Answer 8

What they want the product to be like

Question 9

What could you find out from your target group

Answer 9

Information about the person e.g age, job, gender
Do they already buy the product you’re thinking of developing
Do they like a particular flavour or colour
When and where do they buy it and where do they consume it
Will they want to buy your version of the product - explain advantages over other brands
Something they want from your product other brands don’t have

Question 10

What are questionnaires

Answer 10

Forms for people to fill in

Question 11

What should you include when writing a questionnaire

Answer 11

A title
A brief explanation
A mixture of question types and not too many so people do t get bored

Question 12

What are the three basic types of questions

Answer 12

Closed questions - limited number of possible answers
Open questions - have no set answer, provide details and opinions
Multiple choice answers - give a choice of answers

Question 13

How would you analyse closed question answers

Answer 13

Using a graph or chart

Question 14

What do you start off by asking in interviews

Answer 14

The same sort of questions in questionnaires but ask follow up questions based in the answer

Question 15

What is an interview

Answer 15

Face to face conversations

Question 16

Why are interviews good

Answer 16

They give extra information to explain the answers to give more ideas for your product.
More detained information as u can have short conversations with people your aiming to sell to.

Question 17

What is a problem with interviews

Answer 17

Sometimes more difficult to analyse because you might have asked people different follow up questions

Question 18

What is sensory analysis

Answer 18

Tasting samples of food and rating how good they are

Question 19

Why do manufacturers ask consumers to do sensory testing

Answer 19

To find out what they think about new or existing products which help manufacturers decide what characteristics their new product should have

Question 20

What are the three types of sensory analysis test

Answer 20

Ranking or rating testing - people asked to rank a number of products

Star diagrams - testers rate main characteristics of product on a scale of 1-5

Triangle testing - testers given three samples and asked to say which is the odd one out

Question 21

When do manufacturers use triangle testing

Answer 21

Trying to develop w cheap or low fat version of a food that tastes the same as the original - they taste two samples of the original and one of the new but aren’t told which is which.

Question 22

What happens if testers choose the correct product from a triangle test

Answer 22

You need to re-design the product but if they can’t work it out you know you’ve designed a good alternative

Question 23

How do you do your sensory analysis properly

Answer 23

Target market testers
A quiet area
A sip of lemon water to cleanse pallet in between
Small amounts of food and clean spoons
Use codes or symbols for product so they aren’t influenced by name
Tasters should understand what they are doing

Question 24

What is the design process

Answer 24

The process of designing and making something

Question 25

Why do companies spend so much time and money on consumer research

Answer 25

The best products are those that address a real need so the more purple who would actually use a product the more chance the product has of being a roaring success

Question 26

What does the design process start with

Answer 26

A design brief

Question 27

What does the design brief include

Answer 27

An outline of the context and who it involves (tsrget group) What kind of product is needed How the product will be used

Question 28

What is the design brief

Answer 28

Explains why there's a need for s new product it is short and to the point as a starting point for the development of the product

Question 29

What does the design brief help you decide

Answer 29

Which products to analyse and what you need to find out from market research

Question 30

What are the three stages of drawing a conclusion

Answer 30

Summarise what you have found out - the most important things Explain what impact the research will have on your designs Suggest ways forward from the research you've done

Question 31

What should the conclusions from your market research show

Answer 31

What kind of characteristics your product needs to have

Question 32

What is a design criteria

Answer 32

The required characteristics found from your market research

Question 33

What is a design specification

Answer 33

A list of design criteria

Question 34

What does the design criteria need to be

Answer 34

A few words for each point and related to your research

Question 35

What are good ways to brainstorm

Answer 35

Key words, questions, initial thoughts, design criteria, research conclusions Don't be too critical Be creative and get as many ideas as possible Use word association

Question 36

What could you mention and annotate in a product

Answer 36

``` Material User Cost Size Shape Advantages and disadvantages ```

Question 37

Why might you use a nutritional analysis software

Answer 37

Calculates nutritional content and any nutritional losses due to cooking Tells you the recommended guidelines for your target market so it's easy to see if you need to adjust to fit the design brief

Question 38

What does the product specification do

Answer 38

Describes the product, it says exactly what the product including figures and measurements is not what it is trying to do

Question 39

What should you include in your product specification

Answer 39

``` How it will look How it will taste How it should be stored Size and weight Safety points Cost ```

Question 40

What is intellectual property (IP)

Answer 40

Legally owning your idea like you own physical property

Question 41

What does registering different features of your design idea as intellectual property mean

Answer 41

The features are protected and can't be stolen by anyone else

Question 42

If your idea is protected what do it give

Answer 42

Exclusive rights to develop your product and hopefully make you tons of money. If someone else wants to do the same thing they need permission and have to pay

Question 43

What happens if you don't protect a design idea and it turns out to be successful

Answer 43

Anyone else can copy your idea and benefit from it

Question 44

What features can you register about your design idea to protect it

Answer 44

Shape,colour, texture, new ingredients, the recipe, the production process or the packaging

Question 45

How long can you protect your ideas for before anyone can develop them

Answer 45

20-25 years

Question 46

How can you develop your ideas

Answer 46

More detailed sketches to decide on the smaller details you hadn't thought of before e.g arrangement Practical experimentation with different aspects of the design leg brown sugar instead of caster Use other people's opinions about development

Question 47

What is trying out different versions of your design called

Answer 47

Modelling

Question 48

What is evaluating

Answer 48

Doing some tests to check its how you want it to be

Question 49

What could the evaluation checks cover

Answer 49

Appearance, texture, taste, smell or other things and against the design criteria

Question 50

What should, you use to record each model you make

Answer 50

Digital camera

Question 51

How do you compare each model fairly

Answer 51

Putting them through the same tests

Question 52

Why is development a vital part of the design process

Answer 52

It should be the stage you solve all potential problems with your design

Question 53

What could you try modifying in your design

Answer 53

The ingredients used (proportions or combinations) The shape or size The finish e.g a glaze

Question 54

What is an example of changing one thing about your design and needing to change something else

Answer 54

Bake a cake in a wide circular tin instead of a deep loaf shaped tin so the cake will be thinner and could burn easily so might need to alter cooking time or temperature

Question 55

What is the summary of how it works every time you make something new

Answer 55

Make a model -> taste, test and evaluate -> come up with ideas to improve product -> make s model

Question 56

What is the whole point of development

Answer 56

To find out what works and what doesn't

Question 57

Why can't you change the design specification/ criteria but can change the product specification

Answer 57

Because the product specification needs to meet the design criteria but if you change the design specification it probably won't meet the design brief anymore

Question 58

What could a manufacturers specification be

Answer 58

A series of written statements or working drawings and sequence diagrams

Question 59

What should the manufacturers specification include

Answer 59

``` How to make it A list of ingredients The dimensions Tolerances - maximum and minimums Finishing details Quality control instructions - checks needing to be made Costing ```

Question 60

What is a good way of writing tolerances

Answer 60

+ 1 | -

Question 61

What are good for working out coatings

Answer 61

Spreadsheets

Question 62

What do you need to plan once you get to the production process

Answer 62

How long it will take Any changes needed to make it suitable for mass production What needs to be prepared before you can start each stage How you'll ensure consistency and quality

Question 63

What is a work order

Answer 63

Produced as a table or flow chart its purpose is to plan each task in sequence and should include quality control checks. Start and end of flow chart with a sausage shaped box Processes go in rectangular boxes Decisions go in diamond shaped boxes - shows where quality should be check

Question 64

What is a Gantt chart

Answer 64

A time plan. The tasks are listed in order down the left hand side and the timing plotted across the top. The coloured squares show how Long each task takes. Some tasks may overlap .eg make icing while cake is in oven.

Question 65

When you've finished the final product what should you do

Answer 65

Test it to make sure it meets the original design criteria

Question 66

What do manufacturers do first when redesigning an existing product

Answer 66

Product analysis to find ways to improve it