UNIS MYP Design - Desk Organiser

Design Orientation

MYP Design | High School

Welcome back to MYP Design

To begin the year, we will design and create a simple product to refamiliarise ourselves with the MYP Design Cycle, working in the Design studio, and safety practices.

Our first unit has 3 focuses - Safety training | Developing Design ideas | Creating Prototypes & Products

Safety

First, complete safety training to familiarise (or refamiliarise) yourself with the equipment and procedures in the Design studios.

Complete all the assigned safety quizzes and create your Safety Pass.

Completion of all safety quizzes is needed to proceed to practical work.

Your teacher has posted links to the safety materials and quizzes on Toddle. They can also be accessed here.

Developing ideas

This iteration of Criteria B focuses on developing your skills in Note-taking, Design ideation, CAD, and presentation of Design concepts.

B1: Design specification

Develop a list of specification points for the product.

Your teacher will lead a discussion in which you will take notes. These client notes, along with the design brief below, will serve as the basis of your design specification.

"Design a versatile & modern desktop organiser that will help the target audience keep their personal space tidy. The goal is to create a product that neatly organises stationery, everyday carry (EDC) items, and personal electronics, reducing clutter and creating a more focused environment for study."

A good specification guides the development of ideas by creating boundaries and guiding principles for your ideas rather than limiting them.

Remember to consider more technical aspects of the design, such as sustainability and manufacturing, rather than simply aesthetics and functionality.

Note taking skills:

Note-taking is an important skill designers need to record information in client meetings.

Cornell style note-taking is one method to organise your notes

Use the template provided to take notes from which you can draft your design specification

UNIS MYP Design Notes grid Template (Cornell).pdf

B2: Design ideas

Develop a range of ideas for different features, functions, and aesthetics of the product.

Use the Morphological matrix format to ideate 5 different concepts for 5 distinct areas of the product.

Some areas to begin with might be: Aesthetic styles, surface finishes, and function.

DesignMorphologyTemplateA3landscape.pdf

B4: Design Drawings

Create a 3D model of your final design and a design drawing package that provides enough information to create a physical prototype of the final product. In High-School Design, it is hoped you can push your CAD skills further. Aim to create multi-part models with functional joints, accurate measurements, and realistic surface finishes.

Your drawing package should contain:

An orthographic drawing showing all relevant views.
An Isometric projection showing the most suitable view.
An exploded view showing each part of the design individually.
A table showing each part and manufacturing information*

Your goal should be to create a set of drawings that provide enough information (dimensions, materials, joining techniques, etc.) for someone to produce your product without assistance.

*outline each step needed to complete the product, the main equipment or processes involved, and the estimated time. This is also your Planning for C1

OnShape tutorial - Vacuum water bottle

The tutorial above shows advanced OnShape skills for G9-12

For more basic introductory OnShape click here.

Creating the final product

This iteration of Creating focusses on planning your workflow, documenting your process, and presenting your product, highlighting its function and features.

C1: Planning

An important skill in High-School Design is managing your project alongside others in the Design studio. You will have to organise yourself to ensure you use your time in the design studio effectively. You may have to adjust your plans because of an unforseen problem or high demand for one piece of equipemtn on a particular day.

The steps outlined in your OnShape drawing package is all the documentation needed for this sectin. Make usre you have outlined each step needed to complete the product, the main equipment or processes involoved and the estimated time.

C2 / C3: Skills / Production

In order to document the creation of your project effectively you should use a variety of methods to record your process.

Use your phone or other device to take photos and video that demonstrate how you used each tool, and machine and developed different skills.

If it is necessary you can annotate these images in your design folder to help explain your process. Annotations should be limited to 10 words per point.

C4: Changes to the design

Although this project is mostly a design and make project from a given design you have probably made adjustments to the final product. There are also unforeseen events during production that might have forced you to make a change.

Show these changes visually by comparing the design drawings to your final product. Explain and justify the reasons for these changes.

You also have the option of making additions to your project if you have time.

Example additions could be; Etching a graphic onto the product using the laser cutter or 3D printing an addition to the product.