Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Unit question: What makes it designer?
Context
Being able to combine form and function is the aim of all designers. In this design challenge, your task will be to do just that. Students will explore the relationship between form and aesthetics balanced against function and practicality. Students will also explore the nature of design and attempt to discover why designer products are so desirable. Task: To explore the nature of good design, you will design and make a pair of speakers. They could be portable and be powered with a battery pack. They could be computer speakers and be powered via a USB port. You need to decide on a specific client and design to meet their needs.
AOI: Human Ingenuity
Awareness: Understand the importance and impact of design (Form & function)
Action: Create your own ‘designer’ product
Investigate Due: 21st Sept
MYP Technology Objectives
Assessment Tasks Checklist
Investigate Objectives: Identify the Problem. (Research)
Evaluate the importance of the problem for life, society and the environment.
Outline the design brief.
Develop A Design Brief.
Formulate and discuss appropriate questions that guide the investigation.
Identify and acknowledge a range of appropriate sources of information.
Collect, analyse, select, organize and evaluate information.
Evaluate the sources of information.
Formulate a Design Specification.
List the specific requirements that must be met by the product/solution.
Design tests to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification.
Investigate Tasks:=====Identify the Problem. (Research)===== AOI: Human Ingenuity: Investigate the culture of design by:
Watch 'Objectified" and choose 2-3 concepts to explore/explain further. How will this understanding of design effect your designs?
Define 'designer products'.
How are they different to 'normal' products?
Why do we want designer products?
Discus the economic or environmental or social consequences of ‘designer’ products.
Relate the research back to the AOI and Significant Concept.
How do designer products make people feel?
What does design say about personal identity?
Identify a client. Interview them and take photos to show the setting for the speakers.
Outline Design Brief.
Write a design brief outlining the needs, of your chosen client. Talk about the physical environment in which they will be used; the style of the room, physical space, indoor or outdoor, portable/computer/wall mountable? age/gender of users... You will be making "designer" speakers. What will make them designer? Will they be: Quirky & fun Industrial Traditional Anthropomorphized
(aprox 200 words)
Develop A Design Brief.
Write guiding questions: what do you need to understand in order to complete this design task? This will bedifferent for all of you. Only research what you need to for your design situation.
Use Primary and secondary sources of information (where possible). Visit the site where they will/could be used, take photos/measurements, interview a client... Evaluate your sources. eg if a review site, is it reputable? If 'Instructables' who was the author? If Wikipedia, can the info be confirmed? If a 'Designer'' site, what are they selling?
Conduct a product analysis into similar products. (speakers as well as 'designer' products.) Perhaps use Pinterest to create a 'mood-board' of speakers and designer products.
Research into: speaker design, how speakers work, construction techniques, (3D printing, soldering) bass reflex, acoustics, resonance. etc. The practical and functional aspects of making speakers.
Justify and fully reference your sources. For each secondary source (eg a website) evaluate on its value/reliability. Have you used only secondary sources? Are these sites reliable? How do you know?
Please gather as much information from primary sources as possible. (bibliography)
Summarize your research...can you 'answer' your guiding questions? What have you discovered about designer products and indeed speaker design?
Formulate a Design Specification.
Divide your specification into 2 columns; Desired and Required. List the specific requirements of your client. eg:
Must be sleek and futuristic
Must complement the design of my office.
Should be light weight and durable
List the requirements of good aesthetics/design Describe the practical requirements/function.
You should create 5+ design ideas. For each design idea, I would like to see how the idea developed. Thumbnail sketches , annotations, various ideas that develop into the final idea. What was you inspiration? Where did the idea come from?
Evalaute each 'final' design ideas (5+) using the design specification as a checklist.
Select one of your designs and justify/explain why it is the best. Above are some examples of student work. Can you see how they were made and from what material?
Consider that we can use the laser cutter, 3D printer and CNC router when making our designs.
3D Printing!
Plan Objectives: Plan Due: 12th Oct
Plan a Product or Solution
Construct a plan to create the product/solution that has a series of logical steps
Construct a plan to create the product/solution that makes effective use of resources and time
Evaluate the plan and justify any modifications to the design.
Plan your Product or Solution Make a detailed 'Plan of Manufacture' that can step by step guide you through the making of your speakers. Break it up into sections as needed (Sketch-up design, electronic assembly etc).
Include tools, equipment, materials and processes needed. Should be clear enough for someone else to follow.
Create a materials list of every thing you need. (like a shopping list)
Create a Gantt Chart to plan your time using the sections created in the above plan of manufacture.
Evaluate your planning looking for; quality control points, try and predict possible problems (what concerns do you have), time allocation etc. This is a paragraph or 2 evaluation.
Did you change you plan after evaluating it? Highlight the changes & explain...
Design object to be 3D printed in Google Sketch-up. Make sure your have THIS plug-in installed to export the file.
3D printing will be done overnight so make sure you give the skecth-up file and .stl file to Mr Plummer.
You will all need to solder the amplifier circuit .
You might choose to build your speakers from MDF and utilize woodwork techniques.
Use Appropriate Techniques and Equipment
Follow your plan! Make a copy of your Gantt chart, upload it to Instructables and update the chart when you complete a task. Enter the date, and/or new boxes in different colour when you compete a task.
When you complete tasks and the time is different to your plan, explain the reasons why.
Justify any other changes made to your plan, no matter how small.
Follow the Plan
Keep a process journal, with photographs, videos and brief explanations while making your speakers. EACH LESSON!
Explain what went went, what went wrong, what problems you solved and what you need to do next lesson.
Evaluate Objectives:Evaluate Due: 18th Jan Evaluate your Product or Solution
Carry out tests to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification
Evaluate the success of the product/solution in an objective manner based on testing, their own views and the views of the intended user.
Evaluate the impact of the product/solution on individuals and on society.
Explain how the product/solution could be improved.
Evaluate your Use of the Design Cycle.
Suggest ways in which their performance could be improved.
CHECK THIS LINK FOR COOL DIY SPEAKERS IDEAS
LINK for help with Product Analysis.
LINK to the Design Museum, London.
Significant Concept:
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.What makes it designer?
Context
Being able to combine form and function is the aim of all designers. In this design challenge, your task will be to do just that. Students will explore the relationship between form and aesthetics balanced against function and practicality. Students will also explore the nature of design and attempt to discover why designer products are so desirable.Task:
To explore the nature of good design, you will design and make a pair of speakers. They could be portable and be powered with a battery pack. They could be computer speakers and be powered via a USB port. You need to decide on a specific client and design to meet their needs.
Human Ingenuity
Action: Create your own ‘designer’ product
Investigate Due: 21st Sept
Identify the Problem. (Research)
Develop A Design Brief.
Formulate a Design Specification.
Investigate examples here!
AOI: Human Ingenuity:
Investigate the culture of design by:
Watch 'Objectified" and choose 2-3 concepts to explore/explain further.
How will this understanding of design effect your designs?
Identify a client. Interview them and take photos to show the setting for the speakers.
Outline Design Brief.
Write a design brief outlining the needs, of your chosen client. Talk about the physical environment in which they will be used; the style of the room, physical space, indoor or outdoor, portable/computer/wall mountable? age/gender of users...You will be making "designer" speakers. What will make them designer?
Will they be:
Quirky & fun
Industrial
Traditional
Anthropomorphized
(aprox 200 words)
Develop A Design Brief.
Write guiding questions: what do you need to understand in order to complete this design task? This will be different for all of you. Only research what you need to for your design situation.Use Primary and secondary sources of information (where possible). Visit the site where they will/could be used, take photos/measurements, interview a client...
Evaluate your sources. eg if a review site, is it reputable?
If 'Instructables' who was the author?
If Wikipedia, can the info be confirmed?
If a 'Designer'' site, what are they selling?
Conduct a product analysis into similar products. (speakers as well as 'designer' products.) Perhaps use Pinterest to create a 'mood-board' of speakers and designer products.
Research into: speaker design, how speakers work, construction techniques, (3D printing, soldering) bass reflex, acoustics, resonance. etc.
The practical and functional aspects of making speakers.
Justify and fully reference your sources. For each secondary source (eg a website) evaluate on its value/reliability.
Have you used only secondary sources?
Are these sites reliable?
How do you know?
Please gather as much information from primary sources as possible.
(bibliography)
Summarize your research...can you 'answer' your guiding questions?
What have you discovered about designer products and indeed speaker design?
Formulate a Design Specification.
Divide your specification into 2 columns; Desired and Required.List the specific requirements of your client.
eg:
List the requirements of good aesthetics/design
Describe the practical requirements/function.
Perhaps use Dieter Ram's "Good design is...."
Perhaps use Alessi Design Formula
Design and explain multiple tests for your completed product.
How will you know it is 'designer'
How will you know if they meet the needs of your client?How will they perform? Under what conditions?
ID Sketching
Sketch-a-day
speakersketches.jpg
speaker_sketches.jpg
ID Creatures
Design Objectives===DESIGN DUE: 21ST SEPT===
Design a Product or Solution
Exemplar student Design work HERE
Step-by step guide on how to make these cool LED 'flashing to the beat' Pipe Speakers!
Design a Product or Solution
You should create 5+ design ideas.
For each design idea, I would like to see how the idea developed. Thumbnail sketches , annotations, various ideas that develop into the final idea.
What was you inspiration? Where did the idea come from?
Evalaute each 'final' design ideas (5+) using the design specification as a checklist.
Select one of your designs and justify/explain why it is the best.
Above are some examples of student work. Can you see how they were made and from what material?
Consider that we can use the laser cutter, 3D printer and CNC router when making our designs.
3D Printing!
Plan a Product or Solution
Exemplar PLAN work
Plan your Product or Solution
Make a detailed 'Plan of Manufacture' that can step by step guide you through the making of your speakers. Break it up into sections as needed (Sketch-up design, electronic assembly etc).
Did you change you plan after evaluating it? Highlight the changes & explain...
Try: Toms Planner!
amp.jpg Click on this link to see an image of how to solder your amplifier circuit.
Create Due: 14th Dec
Create the Product or Solution
Use Appropriate Techniques and Equipment
Follow the Plan
Create examples HERE
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Instructables links:
Create the Product or Solution
Use Appropriate Techniques and Equipment
Follow the Plan
Evaluate your Product or Solution
Evaluate your Use of the Design Cycle.
- Suggest ways in which their performance could be improved.
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>Evaluate your Product or Solution
Evaluate your completed speakers using the Design Spec as a checklist. (Complete sentences)
Test your speakers in a practical way and record their performance
Get an evaluation from the intended user.!
Reflect upon the impact of design speakers upon the market place
Describe, in detail, how you could improve your design. (Form and Function)
Evaluate your Use of the Design Cycle.
Reflect upon your efforts at each stage of the design cycle.
Evaluate example found HERE
10 principles of good design
Failed Invention