How do you make a new product successful?

Learning targets

Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups

Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design.

Assemble or cook ingredients (controlling the temperature of the oven or hob, if cooking).

Measure and mark out to the nearest millimetre.

Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, Aimed at particular individuals or groups.

Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.

Select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities

To investigate and analyse a range of existing products

Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.

Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world.

Improve upon existing designs, giving reasons for choices.

Disassemble products to understand how they work.