Design Collaboration

Question 1

What is collaboration?

Answer 1

Process of working with others to create something.

Brings people together to pool ideas and concepts

Question 2

What is user centred design (UCD) ?

Answer 2

Involves putting the end user at the centre of every decision made during the design process and, as a result, the end product is more likely to fit their needs

Question 3

What is system approach?

Answer 3

Considers all the steps in a process or project and how they affect it

Question 4

What is iterative design?

Answer 4

Circular design process that models, evaluates and improves designs based on the results of testing. The iterative design process works by analysing the evaluative feedback received and using it to redevelop the product.

Question 5

What are the advantages of iterative design?

Answer 5

Ensure a product is fit for purpose
Meets functionality requirements
Reliable and usable
Cost saving process preventing manufacturing with errors

Question 6

What is design fixation?

Answer 6

Stops a designer considering multiple strategies to solve a design problem or develop a new idea.
Designers need to use a range of techniques to challenge their own thinking and generate new ideas

Question 7

What is sketching?

Answer 7

Show design concepts in detail with dimensions and material choices with annotations

Question 8

What is modelling?

Answer 8

Taking an idea from a sketch into a model is a low cost method of seeing how a product looks and works

Question 9

What is testing?

Answer 9

Ongoing process throughout design and manufacturing

• data should be gathered throughout the process
• Results can be evaluated to help determine the best idea to take forward
• Sketching, Modelling, testing and evaluation process continues until a design meets all the criteria
• A prototype can be produced

Question 10

What is destructive testing?

Answer 10

• Tests a product to its extreme

Data gathered helps guide a manufacturer on the appropriate choice of materials and construction method.

Question 11

What is non-destructive testing?

Answer 11

• Identifies areas of weakness

Tests the function and usability without destroying the prototype of end product

Question 12

What is market testing?

Answer 12

• Looks at how the product performs with user groups and client testing and their feedback is analysed

Question 13

What is evaluation?

Answer 13

• informs a designer about which parts of a product work and which need improving.