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A level
- 1 Materials >
- 2 Performance Characteristics of materials
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3 Processes, Techniques and Specialist tools
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4 Digital Technologies
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- 5 Factors influencing the Development of Products >
- 6 Effects of Technological Developments >
- 7 Safe Working Practices, Potential Hazards and Risk Assessments >
- 8 Features of Manufacturing Industries >
- 9 Designing for Maintenance and the cleaner environment
- 10 Current Legislation
- 11 Information Handling, MOdelling and PLanning
- 12 Further Processes and Techniques
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GCSE
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Product Design
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- 1 - What is PD? >
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2 - Switched on Project
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- Developing a product for an identified need
- Design Brief
- Mood Board - Target User
- Planning research / Questionnaire / Sizes
- Development of design proposals
- Development of design proposals 2 - geometry and Fibonacci series
- Presenting your work - isometric, rendering, annotation, fine liner
- Making - using cameras and diaries
- High level demand
- Testing and evaluating
- Plastics
- Moulding thermoplastics
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3 - Designers and designing in the commercial world
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- Design Periods Through History
- Design movements
- The birth of the designer label
- From Post-Modernism to blobject
- Design implications for the manufacturer
- Consumer issues and awareness
- Case Study XK8
- Empirical, intuitive and systematic design
- Designer case studies
- Human Factors
- Inclusive and exclusive design
- Making products safe
- Quality
- Sustainability
- Social Impact
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4 - Flat-pack phone holder
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- Consumer Issues and Awareness
- Product Analysis
- Social, Moral, Environmental and Sustainability Issues
- Developing and Modelling Ideas
- Presenting a Design Proposal and Manufacturing Specification
- Manufacturing Decisions
- Packaging and Marketing
- Industrial Manufacturing of Packaging
- Marketing/Branding
- Google Sketchup
- Commercial Viability
- Modifications for commercial viability
- Cutting Materials
- Paper and Card
- 5 - Product Manufacture + The Use of ICT in Production >
- 6 - Sources and Properties of Materials >
- 7 - Manipulating and combining materials
- 8 - Manufacture Processes
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RM
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- Controlled Assessment >
- Materials and components >
- Components, Adhesives and Applied Finishes >
- Inspiration and Innovation >
- Design and Market influences
- How to be Creative
- Design Influences
- Sustainability
- Client, Designer and Manufacturer
- KS3 >
- Presenting Ideas
- Health and Safety
- Tools and Equipment
- Techniques and Processes
- Systems and Control
- Modern Materials and Products
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Product Design
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- KS3
- Revision Apr 2022