Lighting Product Analysis

Start with the user and the product

The mind map Lamp is a starting point for thinking about who might use a lamp. It mentions users of different ages, as well as themes, colors, materials and tools. Use its branches to make a list of features you might look for when examining a lighting product.

Next, open the resources titled Product Analysis. One discusses a lamp’s functional style, power source and maintenance. Another looks at materials, size and cost. Reading both gives you different ways to organize an analysis.

Look at design choices

The maps on further product analyses bring together aspects such as aesthetics, manufacture, function, safety, size, cost and the client. One considers a lamp for a modern home with a simple style. You can follow these branches after looking at the first analyses, then compare the aspects each map includes.

Task Lamp Analysis raises questions about key features, light technology and ways to switch a lamp on and off. Try using those questions as prompts while studying another map. This page has no quizzes, so the questions in the maps offer a way to check what you have noticed.

Connect the maps to the unit

The Desk Lamp map covers manufacturing, functionality, user analysis, interactions, style and materials. Another desk lamp map lists materials and uses, including lighting a desk area and providing light for work. Look across the maps to see how material, function and user needs appear in different analyses.

Lighting Product Analysis is a section of Product Analysis and Evaluation in Design and technology. These lamp examples give you a focus for practicing the analysis and evaluation named in the unit. Explore the maps in an order that suits the feature you want to study.