Development Research
You need to do some research of what materials things are made from, how they are made and how they will be used by people.
This information will then help you to make judgements about the suitability and fitness for purpose of your design ideas as you develop them.
Materials
You need to look at different materials, their properties and how they might be used in your project.
This information can then be used with your design developments to help make judgments about the suitability of your ideas.
You can use this Google presentation template to collect information about specific materials that you might use in your design ideas. You need to collect information about a few different materials that COULD be used in your product so you can compare what might be the best choices for your design ideas.
Use this link as a starting point for your research.
Key Points
You could use some of these words in your analysis of the materials.
strength, ability to be cut and folded, ability to be printed onto, heat sensitivity, grip, cost, durability, action with water, weight, construction, flexibility, methods, surface finish, strength, texture, surface finish, colour options,
Construction Methods
Construction methods is seeing how a design can be made and put together. This will help your design development as you will know how a design is able to be made.
Key Points
You could use some of these words in your analysis of the construction methods.
cost, durability, strength, safety, hard wearing, process, same material, different materials, method, cast, cut, mould, join, combine
Use this Google Drawing Template to collect information about construction methods that would be suitable for the materials that you have been looking at for your product.
We need to do this as part of the development process is to draw cross sectional views of the design work. To do this we need to know how it could be constructed.
Use this link as a starting point for your research.
Ergonomics and Anthropometrics
Ergonomics is about how people use designs and Anthropometrics is about how big something has to be to be used by people.
Use this Google Drawing Template to collect information about ergonomics and how people use designs.
Use this link as a starting point for your research.
Key Points
You could use some of these words in your analysis of ergonomic information.
size, pressure, weight, scale, proportion, texture, durability, ease of cleaning, grip, hold,