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| DEVELOPING A PRODUCT - AN INTEGRATED APPROACH |
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Developing a product involves starting with a basic design and improving
it, through sketches notes and photographs, over a number of development
design sheets. Outlined below are aspects / key phrases that should be
considered during the development section. You may be able to think of
many more, appropriate to your product. Rather than dealing with each
aspect on separate design sheets, they should be integrated over a number
of design sheets. Design is not always linear, such as, an ideas sheet followed by a CAD sheet, then health and safety etc... Designers usually work in an integrated fashion, with many areas appearing on a development design sheet. For example, a development sheet may include sketches, evidence of model making and testing, CAD, reference to the environment, experimentation and a summary of findings. |
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An example of the first development sheet is
shown below. This sheet shows the basic design of a 'tape measure', as it
is developed into an improved range of ideas. This first sheet is used to
show possible improvements to the initial idea. Study the sample development sheet below. How many of the key phrases / aspects shown above, have been mentioned ? Over the ten development sheets, all these aspects / key phrases (and any more you can think of) should have been supported by sketches, photographs, models and notes. |
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| GUIDANCE - SUGGESTED LAYOUT OF THE TEN DEVELOPMENT SHEETS |
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BASIC SKETCHES - RANGE OF IDEAS BASIC MODELS (PHOTOGRAPHS / VIDEOS) EXPLANATION OF INITIAL IDEAS OPINIONS OF OTHERS INITIAL FINDINGS ISSUES FOUND / ISSUES RESOLVED BASIC TESTING |
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TAKE SOME IDEAS FURTHER OR ASPECTS OF YOUR IDEAS THAT HAVE PROVED USEFUL AND INTERESTING EXPLAIN HOW YOU HAVE IMPROVED YOUR REMAINING IDEAS MORE SOPHISTICATED MODELS (PHOTOGRAPHS) / VIDEOS OPINIONS OF CUSTOMERS / CLIENTS ISSUES FOUND / ISSUES RESOLVED MORE COMPLEX TESTING FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF REMAINING IDEAS / ASPECTS OF A PARTICULAR IDEA - IN MORE DETAIL |
| PAGES EIGHT TO TEN |
| TAKE ONE IDEA FORWARD AND JUSTIFY
SELECTION FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF REMAINING IDEA / DETAILED DEVELOPMENT EXPLAIN HOW YOU HAVE IMPROVED YOUR REMAINING IDEA REALISTIC / SOPHISTICATED MODELS (PHOTOGRAPHS) / VIDEOS OPINIONS OF CUSTOMERS / CLIENTS ISSUES FOUND / ISSUES RESOLVED MORE COMPLEX TESTING |
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