Design

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Well done Year 9. Now, it's time to move on to the 2nd stage of the Design Cycle.

Next is the DESIGN (Criterion B) stage of the Design Cycle.

• Students are expected to generate several feasible designs that meet the design specification and to evaluate these against the design specification.

• Students are then expected to select one design, justify their choice and evaluate this in detail against the design specification.

To get a 5/6: The student generates a range of feasible (possible) designs, each evaluated against the design specification. The student justifies the chosen design and evaluates it fully and critically against the design specification.

Your tasks are as follows:
1. Create detailed designs,
2. Evaluate each against your design specifications,
3. Choose 1 design and justify your choice fully and critically (use pros/cons, compare/contrast) against your design specifications.


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Learning Objective: generate several feasible designs that meet the design specification; evaluate the designs against the specification; select one design andjustify its choice.

a tutorial is part of the Investigate (but doesn't need to be documented)

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Year 9, now it's the fun part.

1)Research and find a suitable tutorial for the programme you will use to create your business card,

2)Open the tutorial and follow along to gain the skills necessary to create your final product,

3)Then make a practice business card for a hypothetical user to practice those skills.

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3. Formulate a Design Specification

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Year 9, now on to:

3. Formulate a Design Specification

Based on your research you should have a good idea about what makes a successful business card.

The IBO says that the design specification is "A detailed description of the conditions, requirements and restrictions with which a design must comply. This is a precise and accurate list of facts such as conditions, dimensions, materials, process and methods that are important for the designer and for the user. All appropriate solutions will need to comply with the design specification."

Essentially, design specifications are features that your product must have (see above).

Your tasks are as follows:
1. Write a sentence to introduce this section (example: My business card for Vasco da Gama must possess the following characteristics: )
2. Create a list of 5 (or more) design specifications, justify each specification.
3. Then create tests that will help you evaluate your business card in Criterion E - Evaluate.

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Let's brainstorm some possible design specifications . . .


3.  Formulate a Design Specification

My business card on Vasco da Gama must possess the following characteristics:

1.       Error Free -   This is a good design specification because. . .
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To evaluate my business card on Vasco da Gama I will create tests.

1.To test my card to see if it is error free, I will ask a native speaker to proofread.

I will create a questionnaire to test my business card.
On a scale of 1-5 (1=awful, 5=awesome) I will ask the following questions:

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Investigate Due - January 24.  You may print during class.

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Learning Objectives: The student will list, with little guidance, the specific requirements that must be met by the product/solution and design, with limited guidance, tests to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification. The student will design, with guidance, tests to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification.

2. Develop A Design Brief

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Year 9, Welcome back. I hope you had a restful break and are ready to get down to business.

Let's move on to the next stage of the Investigation:

2.Develop A Design Brief

*Remember that this is the part of the Investigate where we conduct research (ask and answer questions that will help you meet your goal and be able to make a business card).

Write 1 sentence to introduce this section (example: This is the step in which I will conduct research that will allow me to make a business card).

Then, address the following topics/questions. Remember to answer fully, explain, include details.

1. Define "Business Card" (what is it? how can it help someone? etc?)
2. What is advertising? How can it help promote you or your business?
3. Research business cards (what makes a good business card? what is effective business card design? etc?)
4. Research 11 essential elements in a business card,
5. Research business card designs to gather ideas and information. Look at 4 business cards and analyze your findings. (Include print screen, url, what did you like about the card? what didn't you like? Be specific. What ideas did you get that you could use when making your own business card?
6. Investigate programmes that you could use. (Look at 3 different methods that you could use. Document all three. Choose 1 and justify choice).
7. Conduct basic research for information on the person that you will be making the business card for to get an idea for logos, etc.

Remember that you can use the links in the sidebar to help you solve your problem.

You will need a Works Cited page.

But, before we get started on this, let's looks at some hard copies of business cards to get us started.

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Learning objectives: independently identify meaningful questions, carry out web search, select and organize appropriate sources and evaluate them.