Year 8 week 1

Read through the resource and answer the following questions in full sentences.
Page 2+3 – Reasons for product development
1. Explain what the ‘design process’ is.
2. Draw the diagram (bottom of page 2) to explain all the stages of the design
process.
3. What is the difference between need and want in the design process?
4. Different people have different needs. Complete the grid below giving as much
information as possible as to what the user may ‘need’ from a bag to carry their
items throughout the day. Then draw an example of the kind of bag that would be
most suitable to meet their needs.
User Needs for bag to carry their Example of bag design
basic items throughout the day –
make a note of at least 3 needs
each
Teenager

Toddler

Older person -
retired

Page 4+5 – Understanding the design brief

5. What are the key elements of a design brief?
6. What does the term ‘market of the product’ mean?
7. What is a constraint?
8. What does it mean by ‘sustainable’ fabric?
9. Why does the designer need to analyse the design brief?
10. Write a design brief for your school sports t-shirt – remember to include the 5 key
bullet points from page 4.
11. Complete activity 2 on page 5 – analysing the design brief. This should be
presented as a spider diagram and should have lots of branches that come off to
show the analysis.
Page 6+7 – Research
12. Why should a designer do research?
13. Why should research be relevant?
14. How should research be analysed?
15. Explain in a paragraph what primary research is, why it is important and give
examples of this type of research.
16. Explain in a paragraph what secondary research is, why it is important and give
examples of this type of research.
17. Why might a designer use questionnaires as part of their research? What
information might they find out?
Page 8+9 – Product analysis
18. What is product analysis?
19. Explain what ‘ACCESS FM’ stands for.
20. What is aesthetics?
21. What is meant by function?
Page 10+11 – Specification
22. What is a specification?