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Use an 'annotation frame'
Use an 'annotation frame'
An annotation frame is a template which is placed over your design page and can be used to help you evaluate your design ideas.
It is a prompt intended to help you think more carefully about how you explain your idea to others (who can't see inside your head and instantly understand what your intentions were).
Click this link to make a copy in your own Google Drive for editing or printing.
Some templates to help you summarise your design evaluation.
Some templates to help you summarise your design evaluation.
You should compare your design against the criteria listed in your design specification. There are multiple ways you could do it. Pick one that works for you.
Carry out a SWOT analysis to help weigh-up the viability of an idea.
Carry out a SWOT analysis to help weigh-up the viability of an idea.
By evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing an idea you may have for your product or design you can help make a reasoned decision about whether or how to develop it further.
The scoring system could be anything, but usually it would be something like 1-5, 1-10, etc. (E.g 1 being low).
Click here to make an A4 copy of the template for editing or printing.
Use a 'NUF box'.
Use a 'NUF box'.
Is your idea 'new', 'usable' or 'feasible'? By weighing up these aspects of each of your ideas it is possible to make it easier to choose which ideas are 'worthy' of developing further.
A 'NUF box' is similar to 'Now, Wow, How?' but with the addition of scoring to help quantify the 'best' idea.
Click here to make a copy of this template in your own drive.
Evaluate using a 'score-based' system
Evaluate using a 'score-based' system
This can then be used as a basis to help inform your extended writing task as it will give your something visual which will help quantify your analysis.
Make a copy of this so that it can be edited by you (editing this one will change it for EVERYONE).
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