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  3.2.1 Design methods and processes

  Iterative design process

  Students should be aware of, and able to explain, different approaches to user centred design. That in approaching a design challenge there is not a single process, but that good design always addresses many issues, including:

  
  • designing to meet needs, wants or values
  • investigations to inform the use of primary and secondary data:

  
  • market research
  • interviews
  • human factors
  • focus groups
  • product analysis and evaluation
  • the use of anthropometric data and percentiles
  • the use of ergonomic data
  • the development of a design proposal
  • the planning and manufacture of a prototype solution
  • the evaluation of a prototype solution to inform further development.
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  3.2.2 Design theory

  Design influences

  Students should be aware of, and able to discuss, how key historical design styles, design movements and influential designers that have helped to shape product design and manufacture.

  Design styles and movements

  Students should be aware of, and be able to discuss, key design styles and movements and their principles of design, including:

  Arts and craft movement

  Art Deco

   

  Modernism, eg Bauhaus

  Post modernism, eg Memphis

  Designers and their work

  Students should be aware of, and be able to discuss, the work of influential designers and how their work represents the principles of different design movements, including:

  Phillipe Starck

  James Dyson

  
  Margaret Calvert

  
  Dieter Rams

  
  Charles and Ray Eames

  
  Marianne Brandt

  http://www.core77.com/posts/36776/Marianne-Brandt-Bauhaus-Powerhouse

  Weblinks

  http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/0-9/20th-century-design-styles/

  http://www.stedmunds.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Design-Movements-Timeline.pdf

  http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/a/art-nouveau/

  http://www.designishistory.com/

  http://designkmg.weebly.com/design-movements.html

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