Eduqas A-Level Product Design designing and innovation overview quiz quiz

It moves through research, design, make and final evaluate stages in a strict order exactly once

It repeats an explore, create and evaluate cycle, feeding learning back into the next loop

It avoids carrying out any evaluation at all until the product has been completely finished

It relies only on computer modelling and never builds physical models

Generating many widely divergent ideas before finally choosing one to develop further

Testing a working prototype with real users to gather honest feedback

Becoming attached to an early idea and only refining variations of it

Writing a detailed and measurable design specification

Reading a published market research report

Looking up an existing anthropometric data table

Analysing a competitor's published online customer reviews

Observing and interviewing real users yourself

Numerical and measurable, so it can be tested

Always more reliable than any other kind of data gathered

Only ever collected through face-to-face interviews

Concerned with people's feelings, opinions and preferences

They are essentially the same document written out twice under two different headings

The brief is a broad statement of the problem and user; the specification is the detailed list of measurable requirements

The specification is always written first and the brief is then derived from it afterwards

The brief contains every single dimension, tolerance and material choice that the maker would need in order to manufacture the product

So the finished product simply looks more professional to a client

Because the exam board strictly requires exactly ten separate numbered specification criteria

So the finished product can be objectively tested and passed or failed against each criterion

So the design brief can then be skipped altogether

A model tests how the product actually works and a prototype only ever tests its outward appearance

They are completely identical in every respect

A prototype is always physically smaller than a model of the same product

A model tests form, scale and ergonomics; a prototype is a working version that tests function

It builds an accurate 3D model that can be measured, simulated and changed quickly, then output to CAM

It completely removes the need to ever build or physically test a real model of the design at any stage

It automatically makes whatever material is chosen physically stronger

It guarantees that the finished product will sell well in the market

Produces the final, finished mass-production parts ready to sell straight off the printer bed

Turns a CAD model into a physical part quickly so the designer can test and iterate early

Always uses exactly the same material as the finished mass-produced product

Needs no CAD file at all to operate

A fully rendered isometric concept sketch showing colour, texture and lighting

A quick freehand thumbnail sketch drawn early in the project

A third-angle orthographic working drawing with dimensions and tolerances

A mood board of inspiration images

The overall colour scheme and surface finish chosen for a product

The recommended retail market price of the finished product

The distribution of stress through a loaded structural beam

How the separate parts fit together and the order of assembly

Form follows function, clean geometric forms and mass production

Bright clashing colour and playful, ironic surface decoration

Ornate, luxurious and heavily decorated traditional geometric styling

Hand-crafted, one-off artisan pieces produced only by hand

The outward way a product looks, including its shape and pattern

A new, inventive way a product works (its function)

A company logo or brand name

An original creative drawing, protected automatically

A standard patent

A registered trademark

A registered design

Copyright protection