The Product Design and Technology study examines people’s responses to changing needs to improve quality of life by designing and creating artifacts with various materials including: textiles, timber, metal, plastic, glass etc. Product design is enhanced through a range of ethical, legal, historic, environmental and cultural factors which provide students with a structure to develop and realise their own design ideas. There are no prerequisites for this study.
UNIT 3
In this unit students are engaged in the design and development of a product that meets the needs and expectations of a client and/or an end-user. Their designs will be influenced by a range of factors which affect the purpose, function and context of the product. This unit examines different design settings from industrial to ‘cottage’ industry and takes students through a realistic Product Design Process as they design for others.
Learning Activities:
Students explain the roles of the designer, client and/or end-users in the Product design process and explain how these contribute to product development. They analyse influences on the design, development and manufacture of products within industrial settings and present a folio that documents their own design activities in response to a negotiated design brief.
Key Skills Achieved:
Understand the role of a designer and the relationship between a designer, client and/or end-user of a product. Develop creative design ideas to meet the requirements of a design brief and establish evaluation criteria to assess the effectiveness of their folio work. Explain the role of manufacturing and the factors that impact on product design.
Assessment:
Present a folio that documents the Product design process to meet the needs of a negotiated design brief, explain the various roles within that design process and analyse influences on design within industrial settings.
UNIT 4
In this unit students learn that evaluations are made at various points of product design, development and production. Students will judge the suitability and viability of design ideas by referring to their design brief and evaluation criteria in collaboration with a client and/or end-user. Students will manufacture the product they designed in Unit 3, record their production activities and produce an informative presentation to highlight the product’s features.
Learning Activities:
Safely apply a range of production skills and processes to make the product designed in Unit 3, and manage time and resources effectively and efficiently. Students evaluate the outcome of their production activities (and similar commercial products) and explain their product’s features to the client and/or end-user.
Key Skills Achieved:
Use appropriate processes safely and accurately to make a safe, functional product. Report and record progress of production activities, explain product performance and possible improvements. Outline the features and care requirements of their product and compare and evaluate the attributes of similar products.
Assessment:
Product manufacture and evaluation, explanation of the product’s features and care requirements and a written analysis of the attributes of similar products.
VCAA ASSESSMENT – THE OVERALL STUDY SCORE WILL CONSIST OF:
Prerequisites:
N/A
Recommendations:
N/A
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