Product Design & Technology folios

Assessment Criteria

Unit 3, Outcome 3: Designing for others – Documenting the product design process

Criterion 1

Skill in developing an end user/s’ profile, research, a design brief and evaluation criteria with reference to the product design factors

A folio page with research about sustainability as it relates to jewellery and its manufacture.

Criterion 2

Skill in conducting research and communicating developmental work

A folio page including a research brainstorm, which is set out like a mind map.

Visualisations for the design, with illustrations showing different aspects of the computer case and its construction.

Criterion 3

Skill in developing creative and innovative design options, and ability to gain end user/s feedback and justify preferred option

Luxue Hong, Product Design and Technology – Wood, Metals & Plastics, Criteria 3

A folio page showing the preferred option for the textiles design, with annotated illustrations.

Criterion 4

Skill in preparing working drawings and a scheduled production/work plan (including quality measures)

The scheduled production plan for the textiles project, which provides the processes, equipment needed, level of risk, quality measures and estimated times.

A risk assessment for the production processes, providing information about associated hazards and safety precautions to minimise risk.

A folio pages setting out a risk assessment for the production stages, providing a summary of hazards, risk levels and safety controls.

Criterion 5

Ability to document understanding of and judgments about suitability of materials and production processes, tools, equipment and machines, and identify how the product would be manufactured in industry

A folio page outlining the colour testing for the product, with annotated photographs of different materials used in the experiments.

A folio page giving information about trials for the product’s metal finishings.

Unit 4, Outcome 2: Product manufacture – Applying a range of production skills and processes safely

Criterion 6

Skill in the application of appropriate processes, including risk management and recording progress

A production storyboard for the reversible pants, describing the production process with accompanying images.

Criterion 7

Skill in project management and justifying modifications in realising the preferred option

The production plan modifications and pattern modifications for the project, with tables showing changes made to the initial plans.

A folio page showing modifications made to the textiles design. Two illustrations of the outfit are accompanied by annotations.

Criterion 8

Skill in developing a quality product that is creative and innovative

A folio page showing the design specifications and detailing for the final textiles product, with an annotated photograph of a model wearing the garment.

Four photographs of the final garments being worn by a model. Text at the top of the folio page reads ‘Transformer’.

Unit 4, Outcome 3: Product evaluation – Evaluating the finished product through testing and feedback

Criterion 9

Skill in evaluating the finished product; user instructions/care labels which communicate product features, care, use and/or assembly

A product evaluation of the final garment, with detailed explanations about the product made in collaboration with the end user.

A folio page showing the end user testing the final product, with four photographs and accompanying explanatory notes about the function of the bike mount.

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