AQA GCSE Design and Technology 3.3 Designing and making principles quiz quiz

Carrying out a questionnaire with users

Reading a textbook written about the properties of materials

Looking up existing data on a website made by someone else

Studying a market report that has already been published by a company

They are always the same person

The client commissions the product; the user uses it

The user commissions the product; the client uses it

Only the client matters in design

It is deliberately vague so that the designer is given complete freedom

It only ever describes the colour that the product should be made in

It is measurable so a design can be tested against it

It cannot be linked back to any of the research the designer has done

Design the product once and then go straight to manufacture

Make the product, sell it, then redesign it again the next year

Research the problem, sketch one idea, then finish it off

Design, make, test and improve, repeated

Becoming stuck on one early idea, blocking better solutions

Repairing a prototype that has broken during testing in the workshop

Always choosing the cheapest material available for the final product

Drawing an idea in 3D rather than using a flat 2D drawing instead

Perspective

Isometric

Orthographic plan

Freehand sketch

To decide the selling price of the product and nothing else at all

To completely replace the design specification with the model instead

To test that the whole design works and meets the specification

To avoid having to gather any user feedback before manufacture begins

48.5 mm

51.5 mm

47 mm

49.5 mm

It holds the work and guides a tool for accuracy and consistency

It adds a decorative finish to the surface of each of the finished parts

It melts the material down so that it can be poured into a casting mould

It records and stores the feedback that users give about the product

Systems thinking

User-centred design

Continuous production

Design fixation

To make the cutting layout drawing look neater and tidier on the page

To increase the tolerance allowed on each of the parts being cut

To reduce material waste and cost

To avoid having to use a design specification when making the parts