Strand 4

Command Terms:

• Develop is to improve incrementally, elaborate or expand in detail. Or Evolve to a more advanced state.

• Outline to give a brief account

To complete this strand:

When designing solutions to problems, students need to ensure that they have a very clear idea of what they will create. There is often a great difference between the “idea” and the “realized solution”. To ensure that the idea and realized solution are the same, students should consider all aspects of creating the product. Through the development of design ideas, students should have identified:

• which materials will be required (digital or tangible, standard or customized components, and so on)

• which tools and processes will be used (hardware, software, techniques, and so on)

• the size, tolerances, position (layout) and assembly of components

• the overall visual appearance.

The following can be used in creating planning drawings/diagrams

• Details of components (identification, size/scale, colour, fonts, and so on)

• Screenshots demonstrating the visual layout

• Storyboards

• Web trees and details of identified components (text, images, fonts, audio, video, sprites) to be used

• Layouts/templates designed by the student

• Interface layouts

• Detailed sketches (graphic design models)

Examples