Design Brief

L3 DVC Design Brief

The design brief lays out:-

the problem to be solved
who needs the design and why
what is needed to solve the problem
the attributes of the required design solution
the specifications that the design work will be measured against

Workspace

Click on the "My student dashboard" logo to see your workspace dashboard.

Link to Workspace

Theme

The first section on the workspace, the purple section, is about the theme of the project.

The theme is safety.

Click on the start button on the workspace card and this will open a BLANK Google drawing. This is yours you don't have to make a copy.

Find as many products in a Google image search to do with the theme of SAFETY. Label the pictures on your diagram too so it is clear what they are.

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Design Brief

The design brief is the second section on the workspace, the pale blue section. The card will make you a copy of a presentation.

Context

Choose 2 or 3 products / areas for design from your theme activity.

You are going to EXPAND on these and think about who will use them, why they are needed, where they are needed.

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Page 3 and 4

You are going to be designing a product for a CLIENT and these pages are about asking your client what they NEED.

The client can be someone else or it can be you. You are going to PLAN what you are going to ask them on page 3 then RECORD what their ANSWERS are on page 4.

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Page 5

You need to think about the POSSIBLE ATTRIBUTES for the product you are going to design. These will be split into PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES which is all about WHERE the design will be used and the SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES which is all about the PEOPLE who will use it.

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Page 6

You need to think about the PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES and how these affects the design in terms of aesthetics and function.

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Page 7

You need to think about the SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES and how these affects the design in terms of aesthetics and function.

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Page 8

You will DESCRIBE the product that is needed and EXPLAIN WHY it is needed. This will be backed up with EVIDENCE from what your client has said.

Page 9

You will write out an EXPLANATION of the SITUATION where the problem has happened. You will then write a SHORT statement outlining what will be designed to solve the problem.

Page 10

Your specification points will come from what your client NEEDS, the PHYSICAL ELEMENTS and the SOCIAL ELEMENTS. You MUST remember that to be a specification it has to be SPECIFIC and MEASURABLE.