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Stage 2 Generating and appraising design ideas leading to a design proposal
Stage 2 Generating and appraising design ideas leading to a design proposal
Candidates should be able to:
generate conceptual ideas and evaluate them using an iterative design process, leading to the creation of a design proposal
What you have to do
What you have to do
Candidates generate at least three ideas to meet the Design Brief and Design Specification. The ideas must be supported with annotated sketches and Research to feed into your design ideas.
Candidates evaluate the three ideas against the design specification, using an iterative design process (Development), and produce a design proposal.
Assessment Criteria
Assessment Criteria
What you must evidence
What you must evidence
Research takes place in both Stages 1 and 2. In Stage 1 you use the research to identify a situation or need. In Stage 2 the research is focused on the information needed to create a design proposal.
(a) Generate at least three ideas - use of freehand sketches with annotation to communicate a range of innovative ideas
You should use a summary of the research used to inspire the design ideas (for example, design movements or fashion and trends)
Candidates should produce a range of ideas. A range of ideas is considered to be at least three ideas that are significantly different. Candidates can submit more than three ideas but they should focus on the quality of the ideas rather than the quantity!
The ideas should satisfy the design brief and design specification produced in Stage 1.
Freehand sketches are a good way of showing creativity in design thinking. Candidates can use electronic devices such as sketching directly on to a tablet with a stylus pen. However, formal CAD drawings such as orthographic views must not be submitted in Stage 2.
(b) Evaluate at least three ideas
You should present ongoing evaluation of the ideas - good / bad
summative evaluation of the ideas against the design specification produced in Stage 1
(c) Iterative design process used to produce a design proposal. Essentially this is Development
positive features from the ideas combined and refined to create a design proposal
further market research of potential end-users completed to create a design proposal
design proposal checked against the design specification produced in Stage 1
how you should start
how you should start
My suggestion is to initially create one full A3 sheet with a range of 'thumbnail' quick concept sketches in blue pencil / fine line pen only, with anywhere between 10 -15 sketches as a starting point. These should be generated from your Design Specification and Design Brief and you will then look to select at least 3 of these initial concept ideas to explore and develop, in detail, further. You will use additional research to help the development of the ideas towards a Design Proposal.
what should this look like?
what should this look like?
Once you have generated a wide range of quick thoughts / concepts you need to select one of those ideas (or combine a couple together).
You will then explore this one idea in detail, considering different views (2D and 3D), alongside making development changes / proposals, alongside some test / quick scale models to look at form and possible material selection (use of Procreate to add materials). This could be across 2 or 3 slides (or more depending on how much you develop and how many details you consider). This idea should satisfy / match what you have stated in your Design Brief and Design Specification. You should use the reference codes from your Design Specification alongside annotations that evaluate your ongoing design idea - good / bad, positive / negative etc.
You then need to repeat this process for two more of your quick concept design ideas.
You need to evaluate all three of your design ideas against the design brief and design specification, identifying which is the strongest of your 3 ideas (you can of course do more but CAIE only state they want 3!) and so therefore which will lead to your final Design Proposal.
You should then conduct some further market research of potential end-users, as well as any important additional research (Anthropometric data), to complete your generating design ideas phase and create a design proposal from one of your ideas, or a combination of your design ideas.
This design proposal (stage 3) should be checked against the design specification to show how well it meets the criteria you have stated.
Example
A starting idea for a desktop lamp. Sketched in blue pencil and a quick foam model made to realise the form in 3D. Then alterations and modifications made to the design of the illuminated components, to develop it further )design iteration), considering the overall form. The design changed significantly during this phase and the designs for the 2nd sheet started from the iteration at the bottom right. The second sheet looked at adding a base and developing the form further before looking at small details such as a slide button and different shapes. A third sheet used a second foam model to explore the form as well as the consideration of how parts would fit together, wiring, electronic components, variations to small aesthetic details etc.
The next two sheets tried to refine the form further until the student was happy with the design aesthetic. Further models were made including foa, CAD and MDF as a harder material to be able to shape and refine details.
Anthropometric Data collection
Anthropometric Data collection
Measuring actual users to inform size / fit. You can use the book 'the measure of man' or Google sources
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