Using feedback to develop ideas | Design and technology

Starter quiz

What does a designer sometimes use that encourages activity or change?
- 'a stimulus' ✓
Why do designers need inspiration?
- to generate creative and innovative ideas for their designs ✓
- to copy existing designs without making any changes
- to avoid putting effort into the design process
When you are inspired by shapes and patterns in nature this is called?
- mechanomorphism
- geomorphism
- biomorphism ✓
What inspired this iconic product by Philippe Starck?
- roots of a tree
- a squid/calamari ✓
- hanging plant
What is it called when a designer is only focused on one idea?
- 'design fixation' ✓
What does the 'C' stand for in SCAMPER?
- Create
- Construct
- Combine ✓

The reason or explanation for why something is done, or believed to be right is called ...
- 'justification' ✓
How does the ability to self-reflect on their own work help designers?
- helps to develop and improve their own work ✓
- to focus only on following trends without personal input
- to create designs without any revisions
When analysing and adding annotation to your own design work, which prompts would be useful to consider?
- function ✓
- temperature
- aesthetics ✓
- ergonomics ✓
- distance
Which one is an example of client feedback on a design idea?
- "I like designing products in my free time."
- "Designers should always follow trends."
- "The product is too large; could it be made smaller?" ✓

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Development of design ideas is coming up with a completely new idea or the idea has to be changed significantly.

Developing an idea can be changing and altering very small things such as function, materials, size, proportion or aesthetics.

Analysis - examining something in detail
Development - improving and building on design ideas to make them better
Feedback - comments on a design to help improve or refine it
Justification - the reason or explanation for why something is done, or believed to be right