Instructions:

In this project, your target audience is a client you must be able to easily communicate with. Over the next few weeks it will be important to practice your ATL skills of communication. 

Note: Use the Resources button to find project-specific information & exemplars for this Design strand > > >

1. Select which choice unit you would like to pursue.

2. Think of a range of example products that you think you could make to prepare yourself for a client interview. 

3. Select and contact your client. Depending on your client, you may need help from your teacher to set up the interview. 

4. Arrange a time and place for you to conduct a recorded (audio or video) primary source interview using the template provided in Toddle.

5. Record the interview and document a photo of the situation you are trying to solve. 

6. When finished, Post to Toddle Portfolio

Explanation:

Now that you know what problem you would like to solve, it's time to think about research. When we begin researching the information that will make our design product a success, it helps to break our questions into two areas of investigation: 

Client Research: This is simply what the client / target audience wants, and how to achieve it. For example...

• What is the end purpose of the product? What problem does the product solve for the client?

• What measurements need to be considered when creating the product? 

Skill Building Research: These are the skills you will need to learn to actually create the product. For example...

• What skills do I need to learn or use to create my product? 

• How can I learn these skills? 

It also helps to categorize our research into Primary and Secondary sources. For more information about what sources are and how to site them, check out this link. 

Instructions:

1. Fill in the template below on Toddle. 

2. Arrange a time to meet with your client to gather the answers to your questions.

3. When finished, Post to Toddle Portfolio

Explanation:

Now that you have an idea of what you would like to make from your client and how you might go about making it (skills research)...let's start looking for similar items that have been created by designers in the past for inspiration! Research and analyze 3 existing products and use the following technique to identify what you like (strengths), don't like (weaknesses, what you think could be improved upon to cater to your target audience (opportunities), and things that are out of your control that might limit the success of your product (threats).

SWOT Analysis

1. Strengths

   • List positive aspects about the product.

2. Weaknesses

   • List negative aspects of a product.

3. Opportunities

   • List ways to improve the product to make it more relevant to your target audience.

4. Threats

   • List things you don't control that could limit the success of your product.

Instructions:

1. Fill in the template below on Toddle. 

2. Arrange a time to meet with your client to discuss these options they are interested in you creating. 

3. When finished, Post to Toddle Portfolio

Explanation:

Design specifications are very important to consider when you create a product. These are the MUST DO's of your design. 

Specifications - What your product MUST DO in order to solve a problem successfully? 

Testing Methods - How you will test the design specifications to ensure they are successful. 

Success Criteria - What quantifiable measurement (number or percentage) would you consider needing to meet in order for your product to be successful? (i.e. 3 / 4 or 75%)

Note that when you test a product, you typically use one of the following methods: 

• Survey of people’s opinion’s - what questions would be asked, set up the form or template  (subjective)

• Timing how long an operation takes - what data would be collected and how to record it (objective)

• Checklist for Visually or aurally inspecting final product - Spreadsheet with list of what is to be observed etc (subjective)

• Observation of users to see how quickly they learn to use the new system, how often they need help or make errors (subjective)

• Stress-testing: Use the product or solution in ways that would be expected in real-life operation (objective or subjective)

• Inspection: Weigh it or measure it - Specification table with tolerances (objective)

• Comparison: Comparing the product with existing products in the marketplace noting strengths and weaknesses (objective or subjective)

Instructions:

In this unit, your Design Specifications, Testing Methods and Success Criteria are up to you. Be sure to check out the Resources icon for exemplars that may relate to your specific project. Once you finish your specifications, it's important to actually create the testing methods you intend on putting your product through. 

1. Fill in the template below on Toddle. 

2. If your testing methods include a google form, create one that lists the questions you would ask related to your design specifications and add the link to the form there. 

   • You can copy this google form template if you would like and add your own specifications in the form of a question (i.e. "Must fit all items my client would like to organize" becomes "Does the product fit all the items you would like to organize?"

3. When finished, Post to Toddle Portfolio

Explanation:

Finalizing a concept model is a major step in the design process. Equally important, is being able to justify, or give reasons, for choosing that particular concept. Using the Design Specifications and Testing Methods you outlined in B1 / D1 can help prototype your Design Ideas to ensure success. 

Instructions:

1. Open up the testing methods you outlined in B1 / D1. 

2. Arrange a time to meet with your client

3. Prepare the following materials to bring to the client meeting:

   • Product Design: your B2: foam core model and all items your client would need for testing. Bring a market to alter any measurements or annotations. 

   • Digital Design: your B2: concept sketches to share possible designs.

4. Conduct a recorded (audio or video) primary source interview and discuss your B2: Design Ideas. Test your Design Ideas against the Testing Methods you outlined in B1 / D1. Listen to their feedback. 

5. Add any suggestions or alterations from your client to your design into your annotations to your Design Ideas. Take a picture of the final Design Idea you and your client selected and fill in the appropriate template provided on Toddle.

6. When finished, Post to Toddle Portfolio

Instructions:

Now that you have finalized your measurements, you may begin your final planning drawing. 

1. Draw your final 2D version of your product on Engineering Paper. Be sure to use a ruler and a sharp pencil. For example, look at the below 3D drawing of the product and the 2D drawing of all the pieces that go into making that product. You are responsible for the 2D drawing only. 

2. Show this drawing to your teacher and discuss the thickness of wood you will need for your project.
   Note: Your project can have multiple pieces of wood that vary in thickness. The trick is to incorporate the thickness of the pieces into your final measurements. 

3. Once you have all of the pieces drawn out, make sure you annotate all of the measurements required on the cutting list template.

4. Take a picture of your final drawing and fill in the B4 template on Toddle to submit your finalized cutting list. Make sure to add any additional items you might need (i.e. hooks, latches, hinges, etc). 

5. Post to your Toddle portfolio.

6. Screenshot your Portfolio and fill in the Design Job Request form to submit your Cutting List.

Instructions:

Present your final design by documenting the following: 

• A video walkthrough of the product or solution functioning as intended

• Description of key features of your design

• Image of your final product or solution that is cropped and framed well with good lighting.

Instructions:

Congratulations on finishing the first iteration of your design. Now it's time to test the product against the design specifications using the testing methods and success criteria you outlined in B1 / D1. 

1. Take your product to your client and record a short video of you testing the product.

2. Test your product against the Design Specifications (B1 / D1) with the same survey you used with the foam core model. This will be in your Google Drive folder. Note: You do not need to recreate the survey. If you would like to clear the former results of the survey, 

   • Open up the same survey you used when you were testing the foam core models. 

   • In the top left under "Responses," click Summary. In the top right, click More with the 3 dots and then Delete All responses. Click OK. Now your form is cleaned to record your new survey results.

3. After testing your product, think about the improvements (if any) you could make. Explain how those improvements could benefit your client. 

4. Fill in the template on Toddle and add to your portfolio. 

Instructions:

Think about how your product or solution impacted your target audience. Include reasons or causes by conducting the following interview:

1. Do you feel the product solved the problem we outlined at the beginning of the process? Why or why not? 

2. Do you think the product could have any positive or negative impacts related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals? If so, what are they?

3. If we started this design over again, what would you change about the process?