<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> Designing directory

The designing directory in our KS3 D&T software gives students all the elements that they need to know to be able to design and to record their designs using a variety of appropriate methods. Each topic is hyperlinked to a page that describes the topic, e.g. the two point perspective link near the bottom of the page.
 
Designing Directory
Designing
  • Models of the design process
  • Designing: how to design
  • Designing by addition, wastage, bending, reforming, rearrangement
Problem Solving
  • Identifying problems and design opportunities
  • How to solve problems
The Design Brief
  • Design brief
    • Open Brief
    • Closed Brief
Principles of good design
  • Design principles
Design Basics
  • Line
  • Shape
  • Proportion
  • Use of the Divine Proportion in architecture
  • Symmetry
  • Form
  • Function
  • Colour
  • Texture
  • Movement
Designing for disassembly and recycling
  • Disassembly
  • Recycling
Things to consider when designing
  • Considering people's needs and values
  • Safety
  • Factor of safety
  • Moral issues in design and technology
  • Cultural issues in design and technology
  • Environmental considerations in D&T
  • Spiritual Issues in design and technology
  • Quality in design and technology
    • Quality: Aesthetic considerations
    • Quality: Technical considerations
  • Sustainability
  • Ergonomics and anthropometrics
Recording your plans
  • Planning
Specifying what a design must be like
  • Specifications
    • Design specification
    • Product specification
Generating ideas
  • Hazy impression of a design
  • Using existing ideas
  • New ideas: designing from natural form
Developing designs
  • Design development animation
  • Design Development: Changing Existing Designs
Evaluating
  • Evaluating
  • Objective and Subjective Evaluations
Analysis
  • Analysis
  • Analysis as a Bubble Chart
  • Analysis as a list
  • Starting an analysis with "Who, What, Where, Why, How"
  • Analysing a design brief
Learning from existing designs
  • Product analysis

Communicating and modelling ideas
  • Recording ideas
  • Modelling Ideas
  • Communicating information and instructions
  • Notes and sketches
  • Isometric drawing
  • 1 point perspective drawing
  • 2 point perspective drawing
  • Oblique drawing
  • Orthographic projection
  • Parts drawing