Create a section in your book for Criterion B. Each of the following tasks will be the ‘chapters’ of this section of the book. Use the features of Book Creator: you can embed video, Padlets, insert video and audio that you make of your own reflections, add photographs. Make it very clear that you are responding to each section using the headings listed below.
B1: Design Specifications
What?
Develop a list of success criteria for the solution. |
Why?
You need a complete list of concise success criteria in order to be able to systematically evaluate the quality of your design ideas, prototypes, and products.
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How?
- Outline success criteria for the function of your product. Ask yourself: What would make my product work well and fulfill its purpose.
- Outline success criteria for the form of your product. Ask yourself: What is important regarding the size, shape and weight or the product to make it a success.
- Outline success criteria for the aesthetics of your product. Ask yourself: What will make my product look attractive?
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Consider also:
Make sure your success criteria actually outline success of the product and are specific. e.g.
- Not good: My product should function well.
- Not good: My product should be 12cm x 5cm x 5cm.
- Better: My product should store all stationary my clients needs at school.
- Best: My product should effectively store all stationary my clients needs at school by making it easy and quick to get what she needs out when needed.
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B2: Design Ideas
What?
Present feasible design ideas that can be correctly interpreted by others. |
Why?
You want to be open-minded and not yet hone in on one specific idea. You also want to explore different options.
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How?Inspiration board
- Create a Padlet with a range of design ideas for your product (at least 15). The ideas may consider the whole product or give you an idea for a small parts of it.
- Embed your Padlet in your Design Book
- Add 3-5 design ideas based on your inspiration board. These are ideas you have sketched out on paper and should show
- The function of your product (how it works)
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- The form of your product (what it looks like, measurements)
- The aesthetics of your product (color, style, shape, size)
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B3: Chosen Design
What?
Present the chosen design. |
Why?
You want to commit to your final design idea now.
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How?
- Present detailed concept drawings expressing your final design. (No feathering, No eraser marks)
- Present multiple views of your design if necessary to communicate the design concept.
- Present scaled patterns for your design if necessary to communicate the design concept.
- Present a drawing of your product in use if necessary to communicate the designconcept.
- Present blow up drawings of details of your design to, for example, show: construction methods, stitch types, materials etc.
- Present a drawing of your product in use (if applicable on a mannequin).
- Annotate your drawing with explanatory labels identifying construction methods, materials, measurements, function indications and other features.
You don’t have to do ALL of these. You must show progression from your initial ideas to the final design idea.
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Here are some examples of what drawings for B2 and B3 might look like:
B4: Justifies the chosen design
What?
Presents the chosen design and justifies fully and critically its selection with detailed reference to the design specification
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Why?
You want to make sure you can justify the decisions you have made regarding your chosen design.
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How?
- Which design was chosen?
- Why did you choose this design?
- Explain how will this design solve the problem. What questions may the designer ask to be able to design the product? What other things might enhance the effectiveness of the product?
Feasibility
- Ask Yourself: Do I need to do more research to complete my design? For example, how do I join one part of my design to another? (If I go to do more research, I should include this in my Primary or Secondary research)
- What materials do you think should be used, and why?
- Are the materials available?
- What resources do I need to make the design?
- Does the school have the resources (tools, machinery, hardware, software or materials) to make the design?
- If not, what can I do to make the design? Will I have to get any resources myself? If so, where and when?
- List the skills or processes I need to make this design.
- Do I have the skills to make this design?
- Can I gain the skills to make this design?
- How much time do I have to make the design?
- How many classes is this?
- Will I be able to make this design in the time available?
- What will the costs be for the design?
- Would it cost too much?
- List any safety concerns. Is it safe?
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Consider also:
Here are some tools you might use in your project (you need to know what these are whether you use them or not):
Needle, Needle threader, Thimble, Chalk or erasable fabric marker, Hole punch, Eyelet setting pliers, Grommet setting kit (punch and die), Tape measure, Metal ruler, Textile scissors, Pins (cushion), Sewing machine, Seam ripper.
If you research has led you to be making something that is not in need of a paper pattern to create, think about what the alternative might be to a plan that others would be able to duplicate (which is the purpose of having a pattern) to make multiple items.
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Criterion B Rubric