AQA A-Level Design and Technology: Product Design 3.2 Designing and making principles overview quiz quiz

A repeated cycle of exploring, creating and evaluating that loops back to improve the design

A single straight line that runs once from brief to finished product with no looping back at all

A process of designing a product entirely without any form of user research or feedback

Making and tooling the final product first, then testing whether it happens to work

Reading a published anthropometric data table compiled by another organisation

Interviewing potential users about their needs

Studying a competitor's published annual market report

Looking up existing registered patents online

It is written in deliberately vague, general terms open to interpretation

It contains only labelled sketches and no written criteria

It lists measurable, testable requirements

It is simply a copy of the original design brief

More is more, the richer the better

Decoration valued above all else

Handmade craft prized over the machine

Form follows function

Postmodernism

Modernism

Arts and Crafts

Art Nouveau

Philippe Starck

Dieter Rams

William Morris

Ettore Sottsass

The lowest possible manufacturing cost achievable for the product

The latest fashionable style currently trending in the market

The needs, wants and limitations of the end user

The designer's own personal aesthetic preferences

To design a separate, specially adapted version solely for disabled users to buy instead

To design exclusively for the so-called average user and ignore everyone else

To deliberately reduce the total number of products offered for sale

To make a single mainstream product usable by as many people as possible

A model represents and communicates an idea, a prototype is a working version made to test performance

A model must always be manufactured from metal, while a prototype must always be made from moulded plastic resin

They are exactly the same thing and the two words are fully interchangeable

A prototype is always far cheaper to produce than any model

Faults discovered later in production are always far easier and quicker to fix

Changes are far cheaper to make early, before expensive tooling is committed

Prototypes never contain any faults at all

It makes absolutely no difference at all when in the process a fault is found

Running a first-hand user trial of an early prototype

Directly observing how people use an existing product in real settings

Reading a published anthropometric data table

Interviewing a target user in person

Brand identity is simply the company logo and nothing more than that printed mark

Brand identity is only ever relevant to expensive luxury products and has no bearing whatsoever on everyday mass-market goods

Brand identity is decided entirely by the individual customer rather than the company

Brand identity is a consistent design language, values and customer experience that make a product recognisable