Evaluate

Evaluate and reflect upon the design and production of your project. (5marks)

It is very rare indeed for a project to go exactly as planned and for there to be no changes made to the design. You should explain and evaluate the construction process and justify any changes made to your design.

Its fine to change your mind while you are making, but you need to explain those changes.

Task 2: (5 marks)

Success criteria

Use your table from the Investigating stage of the design process as a checklist for your completed clock.

How does it stack up?

Task 3: (5 marks)

Design tests for your finished clock: 

How will you know if it is any good?

Consider field trials, user trials, surveys and practical testing methods.

User trials: controlled testing with users

'User Trials' are normally carried out with a prototype product or used to evaluate a complete or existing product with real users in a relatively controlled environment. 

Field trials: 'real life' testing

This method is usually performed with final products or in the evaluation of completed products. How could you do this with a clock?

Peer feedback or surveys can also be used. 

Describe the tests that you will conduct in detail and how you might use the results to improve your final product.

Task 4: (5 marks)

Design Improvement.

Using the results data collected above, re-design your project. Create design improvement sketches with a written description of how you could improve the final product if you were to make it again. This would be completed on an A3 sheet of paper and could be a combination of 2D or 3D sketches. 

Annotations should reflect what you discovered from the testing.