Eduqas GCSE Design and Technology core design principles overview quiz quiz

It only ever creates jobs

It has no effect on jobs

It completely removes the need for any human workers at all, leaving the whole factory fully self-running

It reduces routine manual jobs but creates skilled roles to program and maintain the machines

Materials and components arrive only as they are needed, cutting storage costs

Large stocks of materials and components are held in a warehouse at all times in case of demand

Machines are reconfigured to switch between products

Every kind of waste is removed from the process

To hold as much spare stock and as many finished products as possible at every single stage

To remove every kind of waste (material, time, motion, defects) to improve efficiency

To use only manual labour

To make one-off bespoke products

15%

25%

50%

75%

Plan, make, sell

Research, draw, build

Explore, create, evaluate

Brief, specification, product

It deliberately ignores the user's opinion and feedback in order to save time and money during design

It only uses secondary research

It fixes on the first idea quickly

It involves real users through research and testing, so the product fits their actual needs

The 95th percentile

The 5th percentile

The 50th percentile

The 1st percentile

The 50th percentile

The 95th percentile

The 5th percentile

The 99th percentile

They are the same thing

Anthropometrics is about materials; ergonomics is about cost

Anthropometrics is the overall design and styling of products; ergonomics is simply the measurement of the human body and its dimensions

Anthropometrics is the measurement of the human body; ergonomics is applying that data to design comfortable, safe products

The product must cost no more than 5 pounds in materials

The product should look really nice and be pleasing for the user to look at

The product should be strong

The product should be good quality

15 degrees

30 degrees

45 degrees

60 degrees

It looks far more attractive and colourful to the client, which helps to sell the design idea to them

It is faster to produce than a sketch

It gives exact dimensions, scale and tolerances in standard views so the part can be made accurately

It shows the product in 3D only

It cannot be edited or changed in any way once the drawing has first been completed on screen

It needs no skill or training

It removes the need for any dimensions

Models are easy to edit and exact, can be tested virtually, and drive CAM machines directly