AC9TDE8P04 Years 7 to 8 Technologies

Content descriptor develop design criteria collaboratively including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions

Elaborations

• • Elaboration developing design criteria collaboratively to evaluate designed solutions in terms of accessibility, aesthetics, functionality and sustainability, for example recording design goals from people interviewed as prospective users of the finished product, service or environment or including life cycle assessment criteria
• • Elaboration developing design criteria including Safety by Design principles, for example do the ideas promote safety through prevention, protection and proactive change
• • Elaboration re-evaluating, iterating and modifying design processes to improve efficiency and increase production, for example when mass producing a product for an enterprise or improving sustainability
• • Elaboration evaluating designed solutions and processes and transferring new knowledge and skills to future design projects, for example considering project planning skills learnt in producing an engineered product and using them in future projects