Design Factors Flashcards
What are the 6 main design factors?
Function
Performance
Ergonomics
Asthetics
Market
Safety
What’s a primary function?
Products main job or purpose
What’s a secondary function?
Products other job or purpose
What’s the 4 subcategories for Performance?
Fitness for purpose
Value for money
Maintenance
Planned obsolescence
What’s is fitness for purpose?
If a product can fulfil it’s primary function then it’s fit for purpose
How would you ensure a product is fit for purpose?
Make a prototype
Conduct user trials/trips
Make a test rig
What does maintenance do?
Keep the product in good working order
Extend the life of the product
What is planned obsolescence?
When the company design a product to deliberately break so it forces the user to spend again
What are the 3 ergonomic areas?
Anthropometrics
Physiology
Psychology
What’s anthropometrics?
Data that describes the human shapes and sizes of
What’s Physiology?
Study the the physical strengths and capabilities of the human body
What’s psychology?
Study of mental processes of humans, how we think and behave
What is asthetics?
The study of beauty, aesthetically pleasing products are often stylish and fashionate
What is marketing?
Everything a company does to find customers and keep them
What’s a target market?
The group of consumers intended for a product
