design process

Designing and developing a product

Step 1: Brief

• The product is first planned into a brief to make it clear what is needed.
• Briefs include
• materials
• measurements
• specifications
• construction methods
• what the client needs/wants
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Analysis

• This is the reading of the brief, note taking to narrow it down to the important parts and anything that the producer wants to change like:
• The construction method
• dimensions
• materials
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Design ideas

• Design ideas are basically what the manufacturer will think of if they are improving something. They will add their own annotations
• The developer will also make these when they put their brief through so that the manufacturers have a visual version of the work.
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Modelling

• Modelling is the part of the process where people test and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a product.
• It doesn't have to be made from the same materials as that would make production costs higher, just has to resemble the product.
• This is used to find any flaws in the product
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Testing

• Testing a product is vital to the process as it helps to determine what can be done to change it for the better like:
• Changing structure
• changing materials
• changing measurements
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Evaluation

• Once the product testing is finished, the manufacturer will evaluate the results come from it and they
• This may be:
• Changing structure
• Changing material
• Changing measurements
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Modification

• After the evaluation results come through, the product will be changed in any way possible to achieve what it needs to have.
• This will make the product different but better, suiting its needs more
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